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US Lawmakers Suggest That Piracy Is Part of Twitter’s Business Model
- anigbrowl 5y agoThe lawmakers say 'Creative content drives engagement on Twitter' but having been on the platform almost since it was set up, I have never watched a whole music video there. Most videos are either embeds of content from Youtube, or short clips of 10 or 20 seconds. Celebrities are big on Twitter because they interact directly with their fans. I'm at a loss as to what piracy they're referring to. People uploading videos where they are pointing at something silly on their TV screen? Brief sport moments? All that seems to fall squarely within fair use.
- readflaggedcomm 5y agoIt stems from RIAA testimony reported on in the December article they linked to: https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-twitter-does-nothing-to-stop-the-industrial-scale-piracy-on-its-service-201216/ https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-twitter-does-nothing-to-stop-t.... From that article >over a 10-month period, RIAA had to send notices for nearly 9,000 infringements of that same track – let me repeat that. We had to send 9,000 notices over a 10-month period for the same exact track. Unfortunately, we must do this all the time for hundreds of tracks on many different services They don't like the onerous law, and want some content-id-style system like Youtube has. The one that auto-deletes static and birdsong. From this article: >“The only reasonable conclusion one can draw from your actions is that Twitter simply does not take copyright piracy seriously,” Senator Tillis wrote in a letter to Jack Dorsey at the time. This quote shows that the senator believes that following the law is evidence that Twitter doesn't take copyright law seriously. Very revealing stuff.
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