Facebook’s Piracy Problem

Re:Facebook’s Piracy Problem by kevando on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:15PM (#9854642)

Didn't youtube start the same way?

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Re:Facebook’s Piracy Problem by teraflop on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:16PM (#9854649)

The article touches on that:

> Maybe this is just a stage of development for online video platforms: grow first, then cover your legal bases. Some might even see poetic justice in the potential disruption of YouTube’s business by an upstart that plays a little faster and looser when it comes to copyright enforcement.

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Re:Facebook’s Piracy Problem by nnbvv on Thursday July 09, 2015 @05:59AM (#9857011)

There's actually still quite a bit of piracy on Youtube. Channels that do this will often crop the video, or change the pitch of the audio, to avoid flagging from Youtube's piracy detection algorithm. For example, I saw the film Citizen 4 relabelled as something generic like "Surveillance Documentary" and it had millions of views.

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Re:Facebook’s Piracy Problem by cookiecaper on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @06:57PM (#9855154)

YouTube started under much different circumstances. Facebook doesn't really have an excuse.

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Re:Facebook’s Piracy Problem by dasil003 on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:46PM (#9854807)

Sure, but YouTube was a startup in a nascent industry.

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Re:Facebook’s Piracy Problem by larrys on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:19PM (#9854666)

Sure but from my understanding of the article youtube isn't really the aggrieved party it's the creators that are.

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Re:Facebook’s Piracy Problem by qq66 on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @06:49PM (#9855121)

YouTube is an aggrieved party since they are losing money too, but there's far more popular sympathy for the individual creators.

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