Description: A freebooting Twitter account (very likely without permission) posts a screenshot of a TikTok with no credit and gets millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes. The creators of the original video respond, and get next to no views. (And currently have 6 likes on the tweet.)
As a side note, go watch Almost Friday TV, their videos are hilarious and incredibly well directed: youtu.be/Y5HInrono_o
funnystuff97@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m so incredibly fed up with freebooters, but what can one man do really?
Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 1 year ago
OOTL: what is meant by freebooting. Is it just reposting other people's content without proper attribution?
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You got it dead on.
It’s always been an issue, but it’s getting worse and becoming even more common.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yeah, specifically jumping between platforms. So for example the term was coined by YouTuber Brady Haran of Numberphile after his videos kept getting rehosted on Facebook video posts
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It’s an old term for pirates. Some of us believe the term was coined by Brady Haran on… iirc Hello Internet?