Anti-Piracy 2.0: Social Networks Should Treat Copyright Violations Like Hate Comments

One knows that piracy is a constantly growing problem for the film, software and games industry. All you have to do is enter the term "Game XY Crack for free" on the search engine of your choice. This pleases the one, annoys third parties and of course costs the industry a lot of time, nerves and a lot of money. Now you have come up with something new when it comes to piracy ...

Links to illegal content are hard to find on social networks

The reason for this is simple Because even with social media, the spread of piracy content is becoming increasingly popular. Such links remain, unless someone reports them. Nevertheless, such content is difficult to find in the data chaos of social media. Facebook is not so easy to scour, such as certain areas of a forum.

But let us take for example another big and prominent problem. The widely hated hate comments, which are also on Twitter, Facebook and Co. piling, are relatively quickly found and removed. However, no one can say with 100% certainty that a comment is now vicious or not. While piracy content is in some ways hurtful to industry, it is not treated like hate content, much to the delight of pirates, of course.

Since many social networks are headquartered in the United States, they are subject to American jurisdiction. There, according to Section 230 of the American Telemedia Act, they are released from liability for piracy content.

Social network operators should treat copyright infringements such as hate comments

As Torrentfreak reports, the Association of Film Studios MPA has quite new plans. The Motion Picture Association demands that the "social giants" do more to stop piracy than just react to "DMCA takedown notices." For example, Twitter is said to have suspended more than half a million accounts for hate comments and hate content using artificial intelligence. So why not use the same technology to fight illegal content?

As the MPA is currently criticizing that operators are not doing enough about piracy, this could possibly change soon. However, it is questionable whether they could currently force them under US law at all.

Possible consequences of Anti-Piracy 2.0

But what does that mean for me as a user? That still remains to be seen. We will see if and when social network giants are compliant and expand their content recognition systems. Does such a piracy fight come at all? It would certainly be very alarming if an algorithm of each of our postings will be analyzed soon. Everything we write, you would then automatically evaluate in terms of copyright. Either the illegal contents are then deleted directly. Or in the consequence even our account locked by the social network. Either way, that would not have much in common with a free internet.