A top Twitch streamer was temporarily suspended after broadcasting 2020 Tokyo clips. An attorney who worked with xQc said the IOC lodged a copyright claim against the Twitch star. The attorney also claimed that xQc had successfully countered the claim and restored his account. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. A top Twitch streamer said he was temporarily suspended from the platform after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) launched a copyright strike against him, the streamer’s attorney confirmed to Insider.The streamer, Felix Lengyel, goes by the moniker “xQcOW” or simply “xQc” on Twitch and is the sixth-most-popular personality on the platform with over 6 million followers. The 25-year-old Canadian became famous for playing video games and his offbeat reaction style.Although the original stream is no longer available to watch, the gaming website InvenGlobal and other news outlets reported that Lengyel was temporarily suspended from Twitch on July 28 after he showed footage from the Olympic Games while streaming. His account came back online later that day.According to the Twitter account @StreamerBans, which tracks the duration of popular Twitch users’ bans and is not endorsed by Twitch, Lengyel was unbanned after four hours and 55 minutes on July 28. Lengyel tweeted…
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