Twitch Reverse Engineering

Towards documentation of the Twitch platform for privacy frontends, software and tools.

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^{A purple, tree-like, stylized comment bubble with hacker-like code inside, ethereal; Matrix code background made with Stable Diffussion a in DreamStudio. b}

^{Twitch's trademark logo is described as a stylized comment bubble, a whereby the prompt was inspired from.}

 

 

 

twre /twɹi:/ (pronounced as tree /tɹi:/) ^a is the home for open-source documentation from the reverse engineering of the Twitch platform, and of lightweight and blazing-fast code and tools therefrom.

Repositories

Name	Description
twre-graphql	Twitch's undocumented GraphQL API, now documented, and openly available (WIP).
twre-downloader	A blazing-fast Twitch VOD and live stream video and chat downloader and renderer (to be).
twre-frontend	An exceptionally lightweight alternative, privacy-respecting front-end for Twitch (to be).

License

Code is under the GPL 3.0, whereas the documentation and the rest (e.g. text such as the README and resources/, with exceptions, e.g. badges' vector files) in CC BY-SA 4.0; nevertheless, there are several exceptions: the logo is waived to the public domain as is Twitch's, as well as the AI banner under CC0. ^{a b c 1 2}

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^{Twitch's Glitch logo, taken from Wikimedia Commons, a is trademarked in the US by Twitch Interactive, Inc. (registration number 5,476,086 at 22/3/2018); b c therefore, as such, the project's logo is waived to the public domain through a Creative Commons Zero deed (CC0); d see the 1st footnote.}

^{Logo made with Inkscape, a through Indian Type Foundry's b Teko font, found in Google Fonts' GitHub repository. c}

^{GPL and CC logos extracted from GNU's a and Creative Commons b License SVG Logos and Icons respectively.}

^{GPL and CC BY-SA badges made with Inkscape, through Red Hat's Display Font. a b All SVGs were optimized with SVGOMG!. c}



Footnotes

1. As a trademark, the logo is not protected by copyright; ^a nonetheless, the logo may not be within the scope of copyright at all (i.e. may not meet the threshold of originality, ^b which may be substantial, at most, modest or low, and is a prerequisite to protection, that thus should not be of trivial authorship) (p. 759-760, ^c cited in Feist Pub. v. Rural Tel. Serv., 499 U. S. 340) ^d due to the use of common geometric shapes, symbols or design of familiarity with minimal varaition in space, arrangement and linearity, that do not illustrate enough creativity (p. 3-5). ^e

   Compliant with Twitch's Trademark Guidelines, ^a the logo refers to Twitch's platform whilist the repository is visually distinguished; and regardless of, trademark infringement may occur, at most, criminalized in the very limited context of counterfeiting (i.e. to traffic in with a mark, to deceive or cause confusion, with commercial purposes; 18 U.S.C. § 2320 ^b from Pub. L. 98–473, 2178), ^c which constitutes a billion dollar industry (p. 478, 485 & 486). ^d

   Furthermore, trademark infringment is established under the Lanham Act that the use is commercial, in connection with the sale or advertising of goods or services, and without consent (15 U.S.C. § 1114, 1125 & 1127), ^a to cause confusion as to the their affiliation or origin (1-800 Contacts v. WhenU, 414 F.3d 400), ^b whether the mark may be registered or protected by law from popularity and distinctiveness (§ 1125(c); Time v. Petersen Publishing, 173 F.3d 113). ^c

   All in all, the logo, withdrawn from copyright protection, does not violate the trademark as the use is non-commercial, and is unable to cause confusion with Twitch's platform or any of its products, as is clear from the project's purpose, which is unaffiliated, in any way, with Twitch. ↩

2. AI art is not of human authorship, and therefore is not copyright protected: Copyright law only protects intellectual labor, founded in the creativity of the human mind, and is thus limited to human creations. ^a (nevertheless, the AI copyright issue is widely debated among many fields). ^b ↩