Taking legal action against the most active sellers of viewbot services

Fighting them legally might work temporarily, but eventually new viewbot services will arise in other countries that can't be reached legally.

I'm very interested in what measures they use to detect viewbots now. What's stopping twitch themselves from buying a viewbot package for a fake streamer, then shadow banning all the accounts and IPs that show up? There also may be clever statistical methods to detect them.

Ad companies and big websites like youtube also face this problem. It's not unique to twitch. In fact I think most sites with user content have had to deal with spam bots at some point.

Any legal minds who think this actually has teeth?

The blog post notably downplays the severity of the linked lawsuit. (http://cl.ly/013D2U0t2U0C)

It is thorough, especially with an invocation of the CFAA.

I think eventually this will work its way out with people using popular streamers as consultants for how to improve streams, potentially with them taking a cut of the stream revenue. It is something that will probably happen as some streamers no longer want to stream or do it as a side job or something to do to reduce the overall days of streaming. I assume that although one might enjoy streaming, after enough time on twitch I am guessing streamers would like to take a few months off and this seems like the most relevant way to maximize the expertise they have gained.

Can Twitch force the defendants to give out information about it's customers?

A big lot of hot air (and wasted money) over nothing.