The streaming site wants to take them to a jury trial.

Twitch is taking a legal stand against one of its biggest scourges: botters, or websites that profit from artificially inflating viewership on the popular streaming platform.

The company is suing seven of “the most active sellers of viewbot services,” it announced. Twitch already has “a range of technological solutions” for detecting false viewers and removing them, and the moderation, support, and partnerships teams investigate reports of botting regularly, according to its announcement.

“We are taking the next step towards protecting Twitch viewers and broadcasters from the damaging effects of this kind of malicious activity,” Twitch’s senior vice president of marketing, Matthew DiPietro, said in the announcement. Continue reading Twitch is suing seven botting sites →