RE: A PLAGUE OF STOLEN CONTENT

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A PLAGUE OF STOLEN CONTENT

in steemit •  8 years ago 

This kinda sets a strange prescient. Straight up stolen content and nothing else, like copying someone's entire article, sure, ban them. But what if a meme (that someone else created) is used or someone links to another's Youtube video to highlight a point they might be talking about, like many people on Facebook and the like do.

However, because the video that you've taken a screenshot of is a Steemit tutorial maybe it was a newer Steemit user that thought the information would be valuable to newer Steemit users because they found it on Youtube and were not aware of it being posted to the site before. Either way, its a Youtube video, the video is getting more views because of it, so it looks like a win-win.

I'm just being wary because everywhere I look people want more people to come to Steemit and get involved in cypto, but they'll get blind-sighted by stuff like this, since many of them are probably coming from places like Facebook, where just posting youtube videos they want their friends to watch is something that is allowed there.

The content views from Facebook still generate ad money, but the money goes to Facebook and not the poster. So why is it allowed there and not here? Why police something like simply posting a video, that the original poster will get views for anyway? Like I said Youtube pays ad revenue too, so win-win... Now if someone were to copy someone's entire article and re-post it a couple days later or something that like, yes, definitely, ban them. I just don't see the harm in a Youtube video. I suppose the Youtube video's creator should have the final say, if they really wanted to pursue it. Though they might lose subscribers that way.

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To be on the safe side, always give credit when using someone elses work

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