Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling

Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by dingaling on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:58AM (#33246445)

Surely this is a market issue. Give it sufficient time and someone will work out how to wrap a derivative around GIFs.

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by fknorangesite on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:34AM (#33246865)

I'm gonna orchestrate a gif pump and dump via /r/memeeconomy. I bet I could make almost $256.

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by 2Gkashmiri on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:39AM (#33249041)

give me my $69 please

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by celim307 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:44AM (#33247007)

Nfts?

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by Bayart on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:53AM (#33247146)

Would transcoding GIFs to VP9 and repackaging them into WEBMs be enough to eschew sanctions ?

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by blululu on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:12AM (#33247428)

No, Giphy, GifyCat, Tenor and pretty much every other gif distribution service has already done something like this from the get go. The GIF is just not well suited for large scale distribution when html supports <video> elements that support non-garbage file formats. I would assume the current ruling is meant to cover 'gifs' as a broad term for looping short form video.

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by spookie on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:24AM (#33248746)

GIF ain't garbage. It's still king for certain types of images, a format from the 80's.

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