Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling

Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by squeaky-clean on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:48PM (#33252874)

Facebook doesn't own any of the gifs in giphy. So "cutting off the supply" doesn't really make sense. Lots of them could probably be considered copyright infringement if a company wanted to be litigious enough. I'm pretty sure they don't have a license for all the thousands of subtitled Star Wars clips you can find on there, for example.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by lovich on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:56PM (#33252968)

Cutting off the easy to use single place for content can have the same affect on usage rates as actually legally limiting access. Most people on this forum work in an industry where it’s common knowledge that even an extra second of initial load time will drastically increase your bounce rate. The frictionless experience you get with giphy is part of the content curation that is the moat for them

[ Parent | on HN ]