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Hopefully this will make it easier for people to find their videos that have been reuploaded and take them down. Really annoying to constantly see videos in my
by magicalist 11y ago
Hopefully this will make it easier for people to find their videos that have been reuploaded and take them down.
Really annoying to constantly see videos in my feed that are just blurry, partially cropped copies (what is this, VHS?) of videos from a great youtube channel with no attribution and no context.
When this whole controversy came up last summer and fall, it was said there would be easy ways for viewers to flag videos (since the original creators have no way of finding arbitrary uploads of their videos), but I can find no way of doing that. Maybe this will help on the other side, at least.
- minimaxir 11y agoThat's impractical. No one can check for video theft 24/7, and by the time a video would be taken down by Facebook staff anyways, the damage would be done. If Facebook offered an API for Video Search, that would be different, but Facebook's depreciation of APIs that can pull data from arbitrary profiles makes that hard. (you could scrape the Pages of likely suspects though.)
- minikites 11y agoYouTube's ContentID seems to work? Or am I misunderstanding the issue?
- JBReefer 11y agoRadically different methods of enumeration
- minimaxir 11y agoOn YouTube, ContentID can only be used by the big publishers, not the little guy whose videos are getting stolen. Facebook is 10x worse as you might expect.
- sp332 11y agoAnyone can register content with the ContentID database and choose to remove or put ads on any matching videos. Big players have access to delete any video they want from YouTube.
- snsr 11y agoI guess it depends on perspective - ContentID is far too aggressive, and all dispute claims are judged by the accuser.
- ProAm 11y ago> Hopefully this will make it easier for people to find their videos that have been reuploaded and take them down Can't facebook do this for you? I don't want to have to police facebook 24/7 when I'm their product. They can lend a hand here.
- prostoalex 11y agoThey're most likely protected by DMCA safe harbor provision, so while they probably can, they don't really have to.
- ProAm 11y agoDon't have to sure, but if they are concerned with the drop off of original user created content they obviously care about it.
- earlz 11y agoThe really crappy part to me is when I see an obvious rip of a content creator I know, I go in and look for how to make a pirated content report. Facebook makes this _IMPOSSIBLE_ unless you are the rights holder