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You are here: Home / Google+ Posts / Facebook is "lying, cheating and stealing" in order to establish itself as the world's biggest video website

Facebook is "lying, cheating and stealing" in order to establish itself as the world's biggest video website

August 3, 2015 by Paul Spoerry 4 Comments



YouTube star accuses Facebook of cheating to boost video numbers
Hank Green says social network’s attempts to boost video views are ‘based on lies, cheating and theft’

+Hank Green, one half of the epic +vlogbrothers YouTube channel, host of the awesome +SciShow, and brother to the now slightly larger than life +John Green (The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, etc) has flat out called out the social network for "lying, cheating and stealing" in order to establish itself as the world's biggest video website. It's true! If you go to paste a YouTube link for some people it even asks you to instead upload it directly to Facebook. Why? So they can take the views. Sadly, this strips content creators of their revenue streams and Facebook has NO METHOD for them to claim infringement.

The best part of his comments, "It’s a little inexcusable that Facebook, a company with a market cap of $260 BILLION, launched their video platform with no system to protect independent rights holders," Green wrote. "It wouldn’t be surprising if Facebook was working on a solution now which they can roll out conveniently after having made their initial claims at being the biggest, most important thing in video." Yup.

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About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. Jason Honingford says

    August 3, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    Breaking News: HTTP requests can come from unmanned computers!

  2. West Kagle says

    August 3, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    If Façadebook is committing copyright infringement on such a large scale, and openly encouraging it from their users, why isn't there legal repercussions from the justice department?
    I put a 70 year old documentary film from the United States National Archives on YouTube that has 30 seconds of 'lili marlene' in it, and it gets flagged. Façadebook commits industrial copyright infringement at the behest of it's management, and no one bats an eye. ¬_¬

  3. Paul Spoerry says

    August 4, 2015 at 9:26 am

    It took YouTube a while to deal with this… then again they were young and brand new and as Green accurately points out, "It’s a little inexcusable that Facebook, a company with a market cap of $260 BILLION, launched their video platform with no system to protect independent rights holders…"

    How they're getting away with it… I have no idea.

  4. West Kagle says

    August 4, 2015 at 11:00 am

    +Paul Spoerry
    Maybe some of that $260 Billion has been finding it's way into the pockets of a few key individuals? Nothing greases the wheels of corruption like a fist full of yen.

    ……and yes, that was a reference to Kentucky Fried Movie (I love that film).

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