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Facebook News: Mark Zuckerberg Social Network Cracks Down on Video Piracy; Challenges YouTube

A challenge on the horizon as Facebook engages in a different arena of change. Facebook says it will give video creators and publishers a way to remove copyrighted videos that have been uploaded to its popular social network without the proper permission as stated in a report by the Wired. Facebook aims on testing a "new video matching technology," that will allow video partners to determine if their content has been uploaded without their knowledge and approval. It appears that Facebook has been heavily scrutinized for its lack of preventive measures in the past. According to the previous report by Christian Science Monitor, " Mr. Green pointed out that almost three-quarters of the most popular Facebook videos in 2015 so far have been stolen from other sites and re-uploaded without permission from the creators."

This is definitely a high level of piracy for some. With the critics on thrown on Facebook, the company is addressing it in its own way. According to previou article by the Wired, "This technology is tailored to our platform, and will allow these creators to identify matches of their videos on Facebook across Pages, profiles, groups, and geographies,and the matching tool will evaluate millions of video uploads quickly and accurately, and when matches are surfaced, publishers will be able to report them to us for removal." Not only that, Facebook has also ensured that the content owners can have access to better reporting methods and tools to also allow Facebook to know if anybody has uploaded videos without proper permission.

Facebook is determined more than ever to crack down its piracy concern. Based on a report by the Christian Science Monitor, "Facebook is making improvements to its  existing procedures so that infringing content can be reported and removed more efficiently, and to keep repeat infringers off their service."


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