YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims

Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by krastanov on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:38PM (#20717496)

This is Hacker News's fashionable way to refer to companies: not by their actual name but by their NASDAQ ticker name.

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Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by toxican on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:46PM (#20717586)

Seems pretentious as hell, to be honest.

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Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by derefr on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:09PM (#20717850)

It's what business newspapers do, especially online, as the name serves as a microformat causing the newspaper's CMS to automatically inject ticker information either on-hover or as an embedded aside.

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Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by chrisseaton on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:18PM (#20717951)

Some ticker names have no relation to the company name though! You often have to go and look them up.

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Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by smallbigfish on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:30PM (#20718104)

Cloudfare has 'NET' IIRC. Funny!

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Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by owlninja on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:48PM (#20717619)

I'll have to admit I was also very confused by the use of 'FANG' so often around here.

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Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by xeroaura on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:55PM (#20717706)

FANG at least makes more sense since the abbreviation is a lot faster than typing out the multiple company names.

Ambivalent about stock tickers. Sometimes have to look them up, haha.

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Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by moate on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:55PM (#20717697)

FANG (or FAANG) isn't a ticker symbol though, just industry jargon.

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Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by perl4ever on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:40PM (#20721383)

FANG is the ticker symbol of Diamondback Energy, a Midland, Texas oil company.

https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/FANG/overview

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Re:YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyrig... by moate on Sunday August 18, 2019 @12:04PM (#20731008)

I understand that it is a ticker symbol, but nobody on Hacker News means Diamondback Engegy when they say "FANG" "FAANG" or "FANG/FAANG Companies".

But great point though.

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