[justin_ator]

To be honest my only qualm with this would be some sort of infringement on people's abilities to stream what they want. I don't think aesthetically the changes would be too detrimental, nor would the performance suffer a huge loss. They understand what the service is used for, and unless they are trying to kill it (which is dumb because there's virtually no competition) I doubt they would let it drown. It may suffer a tad but I don't foresee a huge loss by this purchase.

In fact, I'm somewhat eager to see what kinds of integration you'll end up with between the platforms. TwitchTube, your personal twitch stream located ON your YouTube channel? Yes please, that would eliminate an entire step out of the process of building support AND promoting your channels. That would be badass, and with the integration of Google/YouTube, it would be totally possible if they acquired Twitch. I think you all are being too pessimistic about it.