The lawsuit is part of an effort by the livestreaming site to prevent video creators from gaming the system and artificially inflating their view counts.

Twitch wins $1.3m lawsuit against view bots California judge orders bot makers to shut down and pay damages to leading streaming platform ...

Twitch is purging 7.5 million bots that inflated view and follower counts The news comes after users saw steep drops in their follow counts.

Back in June 2016, Twitch filed a legal complaint against seven makers of ‘view bots’, software used to inflate the apparent view count, follower count, and chat activity on a Twitch channel ...

Twitch has started legal action against seven sellers of "view-bot" services, which are employed to artificially increase important metrics like view counts, follower counts and general chat activity.

Twitch is seeking injunctions against the bot-makers, transfer of possession of their domains, an order barring payment processors from providing them with service, and restitution, legal fees ...

A Google search for “Twitch legal view botting” returns results from an array of companies with names like ViewBots, TwitchBoost, Streambot, Stream Chaos Bot, Twitch View Bot, and ViewerApps ...

Twitch is suing seven bot-makers whose wares artificially inflate viewer and follower counts of the livestreaming service’s members. The action was announced as part of a general declaration of ...