Geniuses at Twitch

There is essentially no recourse when a bot at Twitch believes that this audio:

is precisely the same as this audio:

The first clip is from my LinkNYC Radio. The second is something called Fairy Tale Fantasies in a Musical Slumber by Dreamy Slumberz. I don’t know anything about the latter work but I doubt if “Dreamy Slumberz” or a reasonable human with passable hearing capacities would believe that it sounds anything like the LinkNYC excerpt. I don’t know how the innards of these things really work but I do know that no humans are involved in making these accusations of stolen copyrighted content, and these decisions are usually final. This is why I gave up posting my piano music videos. I would get robo messages accusing me of being anyone from Glenn Gould to Michael Ponti because apparently my playing was close enough to theirs? I never made side-by-side comparisons of my playing versus any of the recorded pianists I was accused of being but I just assumed that similarity of playing was why the bot was triggered. As this example from LinkNYC and Dreamy Slumberz indicates, that algorithm can be awfully off.

This email cites “multiple instances of copyrighted audio” by pointing to the exact same audio clip three times, making me three times the criminal for a crime I did not commit.