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  • Presented by Destin Sandlin
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Destin Sandlin explains how Facebook users re-upload YouTube videos natively, causing original creators to lose views and revenue while Facebook profits.

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What people say. Engineers point to this video as a first-hand account of Facebook's early video piracy and copyright enforcement issues.

pen2lon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Facebook’s Piracy Problem”

Did you watch his video where he explains his views himself? I find it pretty convincing: link to this video Interestingly, a lot of people are getting very frustrated with Facebook for other reasons as well. Famously, there's Veritasium's video: link I can really appreciate what they're feeling. With piracy as we have traditionally known it, at least usually the pirate is not directly profiting from his act of piracy. With freebooting, Facebook is literally profiting from other people's work. It's directly diverting money flow from the creator (who REALLY NEED THE MONEY) to Facebook. I think it's plainly ridiculous this is happening, and obviously Facebook will turn a blind eye to it because it's ma…

lipson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Facebook’s Piracy Problem”

They're both at fault, to varying degrees, explicitly or implicitly. Destin mentions in his "intro to freebooting" video his various attempts to contact Facebook regarding the piracy, and that it was only removed after a Twitter campaign led by his viewers: link to this video I don't know much, or have any experience with DMCA, but it's my impression that if there's a copyright violation on Youtube, the video can be taken down very quickly, and the burden of proof is then placed on the uploader to get it back up.

pen2lon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of World Wide Web”

It's parasitic because of its particular approach. For example, it could embed youtube videos... so that the real creators get their pay, but no, Facebook would rather that the videos be Facebook videos, thereby the original creator getting zero profit from his hard work. See link to this video for a first-hand account of the situation.

forrestthewoodson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Anger at 'stolen' online courses on Udemy”

I didn't say Udemy was responsible for flagging content. But I am saying there's no fucking way there are only 125 copyright infringing cases. It's a shit ton more. It may not be their responsibility to find them. But to imply that's the extent of the problem is wrong and a lie. "nor can anyone other than the copyright holder reasonably be expected to" I don't think this is a fundamentally true statement. For example I believe that Facebook has a moral obligation to provide tools to stop freebooting. link to this video

pen2lon Hacker News • Mentions

On “A letter to our daughter”

Consider as well that Facebook steals money from content creators who really need the money . See link to this video & link Also, the idea of having Facebook at the cost of giving up your privacy to this behemoth, and more importantly, at the cost of this company exploiting your cognitive biases to get you to buy things hardly seems conducive to a spirit of bettering the world.

snthdon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Why we chose to move to HTML5 video”

>“Freebooting” is a silly but oddly appropriate word invented by YouTubers CGP Grey and Brady Haran that means “taking online media and re-hosting it on your website without permission.” link link to this video

pdkl95on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Facebook ad click numbers are inconsistent with other analytics”

Facebook has a history of fraud in their other services. Veritasium fell victim to FB's scams as a publisher a couple years ago1. I know first-hand that Facebook's advertising model is deeply flawed. When I paid to promote my page I gained 80,000 followers in developing countries who didn't care about Veritasium (but I wasn't aware of this at the time). They drove my reach and engagement numbers down, basically rendering the page useless. They also have a history of encouraging video fraud23. 1 link 2 link to this video 3 link

Ralfpon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Fox 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA”

SmarterEveryDay told a story in one of his videos about slow-mo clip of tatoo machine in action being ripped from one of his movies by the large press publisher, Bauer, and reuploaded on Bauer's Facebook page. Then Bauer moved on to claim DMCA on his original uploaded by him on his Facebook page: link to this video

TAForObvReasonson Hacker News • Mentions

On “EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line”

It's absolutely insane that freebooting 1 on Facebook was allowed to persist for so long. It's easy to see the right to monetary remuneration as a method of addressing a massive loophole exploited by Facebook and certain users for years. 1 link to this video

wolphon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download”

It's apparently a bit of a hassle to get it removed at times though. And in most cases far to late for it to really matter: link to this video