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How Facebook Is Stealing A Billion Views
How Facebook Is Stealing A Billion Views
O Facebook declined to
comment on the
Kurzgesagt video,
however it has publicly
addressed the issue of
freebooting on its
platform before.
How Facebook is Stealing a
billion views
O Facebook does use a
system called Audible
Magic to detect copyright-
infringing videos, and it
has a system in which
users can flag freebooted
videos. And the company
says users who make
repeated copyright
infringements may find
their accounts suspended.
How Facebook is Stealing a
billion views
O Facebook published a blog post
about video management, in
which it mentioned freebooting,
in August. The company said it
had heard from some video
publishers that there were ways
in which it could be doing a
better job and that it was taking
steps in response. In addition to
employing Audible Magic,
Facebook has been building
video-matching technology that
will be available to a "subset of
creators."
How Facebook is Stealing a
billion views
O Facebook was
challenged over the
issue of video
copyright
infringement by
popular YouTube star
Hank Green back in
August, in a Medium
post entitled "Theft,
Lies, and Facebook
Video."
How Facebook is Stealing a
billion views
O Nevertheless, freebooting is still
clearly a problem on Facebook,
and many prominent content
creators and executives have
been voicing their support for
the Kurzgesagt video and
sharing it on Twitter. People
have been complaining about
copyright infringement on
Facebook, and the celebrities
who have engaged in it, for
months - and those complaints
aren't dying down.