Ein Facebook-Nutzer lädt ein Video von YouTube herunter und bei Facebook (unrechtmäßig) wieder hoch. Da Facebook den eigenen Player gegenüber externen Playern algorithmisch bevorzugt, verlieren die Produzenten des Videos Werbeeinnahmen, Facebook profitiert jedoch vom illegal hochgeladenen Video – behauptet zumindest Hank Green in Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video.
Of the 1000 most popular Facebook videos of Q1 2015, 725 were stolen re-uploads. Just these 725 “freebooted” videos were responsible for around 17 BILLION views last quarter. This is not insignificant, it’s the vast majority of Facebook’s high volume traffic. And no wonder, when embedding a YouTube video on your company’s Facebook page is a sure way to see it die a sudden death, we shouldn’t be surprised when they rip it off YouTube and upload it natively. Facebook’s algorithms encourage this theft.
What is Facebook doing about it?
They’ll take the video down a couple days after you let them know. Y’know, once it’s received 99.9% of the views it will ever receive.
Ich verweise nur auf die Quartalszahlen Q3 2015.