Last week, Blizzard re-released and remastered three lesser-known classics as part of the Blizzard Arcade Collection. But before you get your Twitch on with your potential Rock N' Roll Racing prowess, the studio has some disappointing news.

This weekend, community manager Adam Fletcher said that given the game's licensed soundtrack (which includes hits by Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and Steppenwolf), it will likely be flagged from the streaming service. He explained. If you want to avoid getting in trouble, you have to take the rock out of rock 'n' roll racing.

In a follow-up, Fletcher confirmed that even MIDI versions of these songs may not be safe for streaming, so it's not surprising that Blizzard would be wary. At the end of 2020, Twitch became increasingly nervous about licensed music, leading many rhythm game streamers to play their games silent as an act of protest.

Blizzard itself stumbled into Twitch's audio crosshairs at BlizzCon last week. Indeed, the replacement of audio from Metallica's studio sessions with Twitch Gaming's hilarious chiptunes is a delightful irony, given Metallica's history of zealously pursuing copyright infringement.

But if even major companies have to carefully circumvent Twitch's detection system, it shows just how out of touch the situation surrounding audio streaming has become. For the time being, it's best to keep rock 'n' roll racing to yourself, unless you're willing to try to escape the copyright algorithm.