<story><title>Facebook Rights Manager</title><url>https://rightsmanager.fb.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomclancy</author><text>Ripped content - It&amp;#x27;s what made YouTube grow and what made FB Video grow.  FB is taking steps to crack down on copyright theft now that the video platform is large enough (just like what YouTube did).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a significant difference between hosting old-media content in a discoverable way on the internet for the first time (i.e. TV and movie clips off your DVD collection) and re-hosting internet-native content under your own account.&lt;p&gt;The former actually provides a service: I like to be able to show people and revisit funny scenes from i.e. West Wing episodes, and often that prompts me to go re-watch the episode from a legitimate source. The latter has no net gain for the user over just linking, but screws over the OP.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook Rights Manager</title><url>https://rightsmanager.fb.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomclancy</author><text>Ripped content - It&amp;#x27;s what made YouTube grow and what made FB Video grow.  FB is taking steps to crack down on copyright theft now that the video platform is large enough (just like what YouTube did).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkclarity</author><text>Pretty standard modus operandi for technology start-ups, &amp;#x27;disrupt&amp;#x27; the scene (AKA enable illegal&amp;#x2F;unlawful&amp;#x2F;unethical things). Then years later, officially notice you&amp;#x27;ve been turning a blind eye and provide tools to discourage it.</text></comment>