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How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 10M views · 2015-11-10 · 5:02

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Kurzgesagt argues that Facebook's claimed 8 billion daily video views are inflated by freebooting, meaning re-uploads of creators' videos. It describes how this harms independent creators.

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HN cites it to explain freebooting, Facebook's inflated view metrics and why Content ID matters for small creators.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2015–2019

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rryan · 2016-02 · Strong recommendation

While you're right that Google's implementation of Content ID doesn't handle fair use well, Content ID is critical for indie creators. Facebook's lack of protections lead to tons of lost revenue for them (and for indies, it matters!). This video changed my opinion on Content ID when I saw it last year: [VIDEO]

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apexalpha · 2019-03 · Recommendation

A lot of European media sees their content stolen and re-uploaded by anonymous users on YT, FB, etc... FB in particular have not responded to this and thus content creators lose a lot of views and money. This video sums it up nicely: [VIDEO]

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apexalpha · 2018-12 · Recommendation

[VIDEO] This does a very good job of explaining how small content creators are practically powerless now on the web in terms of protecting their content being stolen.

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