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"the dubious practice where Business Pages and celebs can rip videos from elsewhere, repost the content on Facebook and grow their brands while robbing the cont
by rsync 11y ago
"the dubious practice where Business Pages and celebs can rip videos from elsewhere, repost the content on Facebook and grow their brands while robbing the content creators of views."
So ... that is the definition of freebooting ...
But what is the definition of "believing that freebooting, and things like it, work at all ?"
- Buge 11y agoWhat do you mean? The evidence seems to show that it does work, although I guess it depends on what you are trying to achieve. Although hopefully this update will stop it working.
- sbuttgereit 11y agoWhether or not it works for the bad guy in this situation is an open question (maybe someone has researched it); there's certainly a perception that it does since it keeps happening. But the commentary from those that are the victims indicate that this sort of thing could be very problematic for them. So I do hope that this and this sort of thing helps lock the bad actors out.
- mmanfrin 11y agoNearly every large page that shows up on FB grew by poaching videos. LAD Bible, IFLS, every one of them.