Why Facebook’s video theft problem can’t last

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/7/9114149/facebook-freebooting-video-copyright-infringement

by OrwellianChild • 11 years ago

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lingben• 11 years ago

facebook as a platform and business is hollow, but very few realize it. this is similar to Enron, Madoff, the financial crisis, Groupon, etc. history has shown that 99.99999% of people totally miss these business models that are built on a MASSIVELY fraudulent or hollow foundation.

When the music stops thousands and thousands of gallons of pixels will be spilt trying to explain how nobody saw their collapse coming and why they are not to blame.

Here are two videos that succinctly introduce the reality of facebook's mirage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g

mschuster91• 11 years ago

Youtube and Facebook aren't even the most fucked-up video thieves.

Just look at major media portals. For example, Spiegel Online regularly "republishes" youtube videos on their website, prefaces them with unskippable 30+ sec. ads and doesn't even LINK to the original source, they just credit with a video overlay "youtube/$username". Original content creator doesn't even get clicks because most people are too fucking lazy to copy-type 30+char user names or because the uploader has changed names or a typo happened...

And they're not the only ones, it's a widespread problem in German news sites.

steeples• 11 years ago

No mention of the DMCA in this? A lot of the anxiety of content theft has been silo-ed away with the DMCA. Really people have to earn the right to get upset over intellectual property theft when we have mechanisms in place like the DMCA

Why Facebook’s video theft problem can’t last

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