Jio appears to be blocking Twitch streams in India

Since last week, several users of Reliance Jio, Jio Fiber, and Hathway Fiber (also owned by Reliance Industries Limited) have complained about Twitch streams being blocked.

Apparently, the website and app of Twitch are not loading properly, leaving the live streams completely inaccessible.

What is even strange is the fact that the problem only seems to be occurring at night, after 6-7 pm.

The issue has been reported by dozens of people, with complaints flooding Reddit, Twitter, and India Broadband Forum.

Many questioned the move by the company, given that Twitch is working fine on other networks, while others expressed frustration over losing access to their live favorite streamers and threatened to ditch Jio's services if the issue is not fixed.

Several affected users have suggested that Jio could be blocking access to Twitch to purge illegal IPL streams and keep people from viewing them.

IPL 2020 began on September 19 with Disney+ Hotstar as its official digital streaming partner. However, some nefarious users have been live-streaming the matches on Twitch, raking in more than 1.5 lakh viewers per video.

Meanwhile, Reliance has not commented on the matter or explained why Twitch streams are being blocked at night, just around the same time when IPL matches are played.

If the reasoning is proved to be correct, Jio would have to explain why it chose to block the service instead of simply asking Twitch to ban the illegal content in question.