I feel Google goes above and beyond to financially compensate content creators, at least as far as YouTube is concerned. Google even automatically detects dupli

I feel Google goes above and beyond to financially compensate content creators, at least as far as YouTube is concerned. Google even automatically detects duplicated content in other people's YouTube videos so that true creators can monetize stolen copies of their own work on the same platform if they choose. In contrast, freebooting on Facebook is becoming an enormous problem. Facebook has a ton of hidden throttles in place which prevent external links such as YouTube from going viral; they automatically favor stolen reuploaded copies instead. Those who help Facebook to profit from this theft are rewarded with more exposure and more likes. Silent victims are being robbed en masse like this by Facebook on a daily basis, and many will never realize it. A recent depressing example I noticed was a video by a woman named Leslie Hall, whose entire combined view count for all of her copyrighted YouTube videos over the past nine years was around 12 million. It seems like she's poured a lot of money and effort into trying to get attention with her strange videos. Nothing ever really caught on, until finally one of her videos exploded in popularity, receiving over 16 million views in just one week - more views than all of her life's work on YouTube had ever received. Unfortunately, it was a freebooted copy on Facebook which did not even bother to include her name anywhere. People interested in seeing more of her work were unable to do so, unless they went the extra mile and performed a google search for the chorus. That's how I found her, so I emailed her to let her know she might want to send a DMCA takedown notice or something. She was extremely upset about the situation. The same problem applies to other content theft rackets like 9gag, funnyjunk, imgur, etc. All of these companies have made millions of dollars by stealing other people's work and hiding behind the false claim that it's "too much work" to put honest effort into finding and redirecting to the true creator of anything that goes viral on their own site. Creators of webcomics are perhaps the biggest victims there. I've contacted comic creators in the past when I noticed their stolen comic going viral on one of these sites, and many have said they were silently furious any time it happened. I believe these sites should be legally required to implement something like what Google does with YouTube, even if it's just a low-tech solution involving a single employee who sits there manually performing reverse image searches all day. As it stands, none of these companies are any more ethical than Kim Dotcom's Megaupload; the only difference is that the victims are small, scattered, and don't have hundreds of millions of dollars available to spend on bending law enforcement to their will to punish these sites that steal from them.