Monday, April 11, 2016

"Video Creators Are Frustrated With Pace of Facebook’s Antipirating Efforts"


          "'[F]reebooting'—when clips are taken from YouTube and re-uploaded without permission from the creator". This is what is happening to a lot of YouTuber's, their videos that they made are being put on Facebook without their consent which is making them lose profit. Normally when a YouTuber creates a video, and depending on how many views they have they earn hundreds or thousands of dollars just from one video. The main problem with freebooting is that it is taking away from the individual that has put the time and effort into making the video. Facebook is starting from scratch trying to figure out a way to prevent this problem. "Facebook already uses a third-party technology called Audible Magic that “listens” to videos uploaded to the site and checks for matches against its database, but it still misses a lot of content. The rights-management system under development aims to keep up with Facebook’s scale and pace of sharing".
          The video that was mentioned in the article was about a scientist, Brady Haran, and he took a chunk of lithium and dropped it in the 7-Up soda. The soda turned brown and fizzy just after 30 seconds. The video soon went viral before the actual YouTuber's could request for it to be taken down. Even after they sent in the request it takes hours or days to fulfill the request and by then it is too late. 
          I chose to do this article because I think this influences everyone's Facebook experience, there is always videos up but no one really thinks twice as to where they are from.

2 comments:

  1. Tell Facebook to get it together!

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  2. I do agree that posting someone's video on Facebook without the owner's consent is totally unfair for the owner. Facebook needs to approach this problem more seriously.

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