Facebook's Piracy Problem
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/07/freebooting_stolen_youtube_videos_going_viral_on_facebook.html
So far it sounds like a classic YouTube success story. But it's
actually a story about a form of online piracy called
"freebooting" that has grown rampant on Facebook in just the past
year. Sandlin and other YouTube personalities are convinced
Facebook is profiting from it--at their expense.
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This is a big deal. It doesn't just involve Facebook, but the key (as
the article notes) is having a robust mechanism for dealing with such
cases in place -- which Facebook apparently does not. My first YouTube
video (from early 2007) has over the years accumulated nearly a million
views. But it also triggered people trying to steal it. It one case
someone took the video, cut off the opening and closing identifying
titles and credits, and zoomed in a bit to obliterate my corner ID bug.
Yeah, very irritating.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
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