Twitch loses lawsuit to banned streamer PhantomL0rd TwitchFormer Twitch streamer James \u2018PhantomL0rd\u2019 Vargas has won his lawsuit against the site for banning him back in 2016, but he\u2019s received much less than the $35 million settlement he was originally seeking. Vargas was banned by Twitch all the way back in 2016 during the site\u2019s crackdown on CSGO gambling streams. Twitch said at the time of the ban that he was misleading viewers in regards to skin gambling in CSGO. The streamer wholeheartedly denied all of it and sued Twitch, seeking $35 million in damages for removing him from the platform for \u201cunsubstantiated, false accusations,\u201d with the court battle beginning in 2019. During the lengthy proceedings, lawyers for Twitch tried to cap the amount of money Vargas could receive at $50,000 from the outcome of the lawsuit, but the court decided not to put a limit on the amount he would get if he won \u2013 which he officially did on April 23. In the end, PhantomL0rd won his lawsuit on all counts, receiving $20,720.34 in total damages from Twitch according to court documents \u2014 a win for sure, though not exactly the $35 million he was originally going for. However, based on his reaction to the verdict on Twitter, monetary gains don\u2019t seem to have been his main reason for the lawsuit: Sending a message was. \u201cI WON! Twitch LOST EVERYTHING, including the fraud claim against me for the CSGOShuffle allegations!\u201d PhantomL0rd posted on Twitter. \u201cThis is a win for ALL streamers! Twitch can\u2019t bully, lie & treat streamers unfairly the way they have for years!\u201d I WONNNNNNNNNNNNN!!! I WON MY LAWSUIT VS TWITCH ON ALL COUNTS!!!!! Twitch LOST EVERYTHING, including the fraud claim against me for the CSGOShuffle allegations!!! This is a win for ALL streamers! Twitch can\u2019t bully, lie & treat streamers unfairly the way they have for years!!! pic.twitter.com\/G0gxqiBkRQ \u2014 PhantomL0rd (@PhantomL0rd) April 23, 2021 Twitch has yet to put out a statement on the outcome of the lawsuit, and it\u2019s unknown if they will considering things didn\u2019t turn out in their favor, but we\u2019ll update this story if and when they do. PhantomL0rd, and any other streamer that feels they\u2019ve been unjustly punished by the site, definitely celebrated the results, since it\u2019s not often a streamer takes on Twitch over a ban and actually wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch loses lawsuit to banned streamer PhantomL0rd TwitchFormer Twitch streamer James \u2018PhantomL0rd\u2019 Vargas has won his lawsuit against the site for banning him back in 2016, but he\u2019s received much less than the $35 million settlement he was originally seeking. Vargas was banned by Twitch all the way back in 2016 during the site\u2019s crackdown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}