I AM DONE WITH STREAMLABS

If you care about livestreaming, broadcasting, it's important to support actually innovative companies. As discovered this week, one of the most popular companies, Streamlabs has been taking IP routinely from other companies and pushing it as their own. Not only that, their affilated company "VULCUN" was caught in a bunch of scandals that shed an even worse light on the company. This is not something I want to personally support. For those who want to know how to switch over from STREAMLABS to alternatives, follow EposVox on youtube, he has a bunch of tutorials.

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This video is an opinion and in no way should be construed as statements of fact. Scams, bad business opportunities, and fake gurus are subjective terms that mean different things to different people. I think someone who promises $100K/month for an upfront fee of $2K is a scam. Others would call it a Napoleon Hill pitch.

[Coffeezilla]

RIP the dislike button. Thanks for pumping the stock as always!

Small update for $ZILLA holders. We've got some BIG behind the scenes stuff in the works while we do a few smaller stories like this... and maybe also hosting a debate with Drake Bell? will keep you guys in the loop. Hope you enjoy your holiday season!

[wsippel]

Fun fact: This is why Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Linus never wanted to deal with legal garbage, but the trademark was ultimately registered to prevent bad actors from pulling a Streamlabs.

[shamefullife]

Being open source can be so much of a pain it's like wanting to do a good thing and contribute to the future but knowing people can just copy your homework and they will sooner or later. Glad we got people like coffee out here to tell more people.

[RedHeadForester]

I got rather confused when looking at OBS vs SLOBS a while back, so decided to go with OBS on the assumption that it was the more stable base version and SLOBS was some bulked out, less efficient fork.
Confusing, but at least I chose the right one!!

[lelandshennett]

When the marketing team feels dishonest…. You’ve got a real problem. Damn

[TenTonNuke]

"If I take the McDonald's franchise name..."

Clearly someone hasn't seen Coming to America. "See, they're McDonald's. I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches. Mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac. I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds."

[zimornline]

I find it ironic that StreamLabs OBS’s acronym is SLOBS. I don’t think I’d trust any program that has the name slob.

[MeetKevin]

I also thought Streamlabs OBS was just a version of OBS / made by the same company. Though I rarely have used either (Streamyards user), that was definitely my impression.

[nephillim]

I'm so sad to see how many people were using streamlabs when it's literally just an open-source software with branding slapped on it to make money. I thought everyone knew about OBS.

[Nunyabiz]

As someone who had to literally look up a youtube tutorial to unsubscribe to streamlabs awhile back they definitely hide that cancel subscription button very well lmao

[dena]

Streamlabs is truly that member of the group that signs their name first on the project and hasn't contributed one thing to it

[hanthonyc]

I sent this video to some friends, cue *immediate* discussion of "wait, there's a difference between OBS and Streamlabs OBS?"

Which basically summed it up best.

[theillumiyeti]

One of the best thing to come from this whole fiasco is more people learning about OBS (such as me, I only ever knew it was something streamers used)

[DuncanandDawsonvideo]

Ugh, I had a fiasco with StreamLabs as well. I thought they were a branch of OBS. I got charged 2-3 times before I realized it was USING MY PAYPAL TO CHARGE ME. I didn’t even realize there is a checkbox that charges you if you leave it checked (it was by default). They of course didn’t refund me, it wasn’t a ton, but it was during a time where money was tight…

[EposVox]

Great breakdown! Crazy how much has come out even since the first night’s wave of info

[ManyMaxwell]

I always thought the two was weird as OBS was open-source, but didn't think twice about it.

This was unexpected but not surprising.

[Howfinity]

Loving the extra touches on the lighting!!!

[heavenlyderpfowl]

As soon as muta talked about this I deleted streamlabs and downloaded obs, obs fits what I need much better

[KarmaXX]

I was never confused about the software situation, because OBS is open source, quite a few companies have built their on flavor on top of it. In my experience, though, the original OBS always has the best performance.

[jjjayaraman]

I admit to being a fool and using streamlabs as I saw it as just a sleeker and more convenient OBS. I too believed they had some kind of relationship.
I fell off because I felt like it was resource heavy but am glad I did