There I was laying cozy in my bed, and all of a sudden I had a strange feeling to check my twitter, and too my surprise what did I see Streamlabs getting called out for not only stealing Lightstream’s design but they even plagiarized Lightstreams advertisement.
Twitter got spicy yesterday as Lightstream posted a tweet calling out Streamlabs not only for blatantly ripping off Lightstreams design but they didn’t even bother changing their ad for it. This was just the beginning of the public shame Streamlabs faced. OBS had even tweeted their experience with Streamlabs. OBS stated that Streamlabs asked if it was ok to use OBS name and the OBS team asked them kindly not to, and well Stream Labs OBS was born. It was even highlighted by one prominent streaming coach that Streamlabs even paid to have their name be the first site that pops up when you type OBS into google search.
Streamlabs issued a tweet saying they had made a mistake. That the text on the landing page was a placeholder text that went into production by error then went on to say they changed it and apologized to the Lightstream team. Twitter wasn’t convinced. Probably cause they title was slightly changed but was clearly plagiarized. They even went as far as changing the picture and the name of the customer reviews at the bottom of the advertisement but barely changing their review. There was even a place where Streamlabs forgot to delete the studio after their name. Which gave way to Twitter users commenting on all the mistakes that they had made.
It also seems that Streamlabs may have a nasty habit of enrolling people in their prime program without the customer even knowing it. A large amount of people were sharing their horror stories of donating through StreamLabs to a streamer and then getting enrolled into Streamlabs prime program totally unaware. Then when they tried to cancel their Streamlabs Prime and asked for their money back Streamlabs denied them. One user said he got enrolled just by accidentally click on the prime icon. Each story had the same outcome Streamlabs not refunding the prime subscription.
To add icing to the cake Twitch sent out a tweet announcing their partnership with Streamlabs to help celebrate Xbox 20th anniversary. You know cause the subscription Streamlabs was offering was the exact version of Lightstreams straight from console cloud based streaming software. This Tweet from Twitch Support saw a slew of comments asking them how they could knowingly partner with Streamlabs. Many comments pointing out the fact Streamlabs has no originality and steals from everyone around them, then just slaps some paint on it and calls it their new intellectual property.
As I feel the need to close my eyes I wonder if the tidal wave of anger will have any affect on Streamlabs and their newly announced partner Twitch? As it seems they are finally being called out for taken open source software, copyrighting it, then putting it behind a pay wall. Then going against the original developers wishes to not use their name for said program. Then not only copying Lightstreams program used for broadcasting from console with graphics and overlays then plagiarizing the same add Lightstream uses for that product. As someone who has used OBS from the first day that I was able to use OBS, I will just be sitting here sipping my tea and checking the Twitter to see if anymore juiciness develops. You can see the original Tweet here.