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How has facebook not implemented their own version of Youtube's content ID yet?

YouTube did that how many years ago & it seems like Facebook would have at least the engineering capability to do that now.

I think you'd see a huge movement for them to do something like that if big movie companies were having their stuff ripped & uploaded, but since it mostly effects small players - it seems no one at FB really cares all that much :(

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The cynical answer is that bookface is turning a blind eye to content theft because they need the eyeballs on videos, regardless of their provenance. It (theoretically) helps metrics and allows them to woo advertising money.

There is no proof of this, I'm sure a ContentID like system is prioritized or even is implemented. Ultimately if you're a legitimate content producer, having a system like this in place would only encourage you to use the platform and it would have a net benefit to usage overall.

I think it has more to do with forcing content creators to come, than with beefing netrics up.

Facebook is not legally required to build a Content ID-like system.

Now that's a motto I can get behind: "Do no thing that's not absolutely strictly required by legal code."

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