After Pacquiao-Mayweather struggle, Twitter building “powerful instruments” To fight Periscope Piracy

After Twitter’s reside streaming service Periscope won consideration this weekend as a simple method for people to look at the Pacquiao-Mayweather combat without procuring it, Twitter says it’s working to build tools to raised fight such piracy. the corporate additionally stated it eliminated 30 streams of the battle, according to rights-holder complaints.

When the fight aired on Saturday evening, it was straightforward to locate individuals rebroadcasting it on Periscope as well as rival provider Meerkat. the standard frequently wasn’t great, however heaps watched this way, as one example below presentations:

Our previous story covers this in additional element: Meerkat & Periscope Let folks Pirate The Pacquiao-Mayweather combat: Twitter’s CEO Doesn’t Care. It additionally covers how Twitter CEO Dick Costolo gave the impression unconcerned over the piracy, declaring Periscope to be the “winner” of the struggle:

despite Costolo’s tweet, when Twitter was requested if these streams were a violation of Periscope’s phrases, the company mentioned yes and that rebroadcast of tv content is normally forbidden. A spokesperson emailed:

Our content material coverage expressly prohibits that includes content protected via copyright in a broadcast.

The spokesperson stated that all over the battle, Periscope obtained sixty six takedown requests (DMCA requests, made under provisions of the usa Digital Millennium Copyright Act). of those, it acted on 30 streams that had been nonetheless going:

contributors of the Periscope staff, which operates independently of Twitter have been on group of workers Saturday night time to disable this type of streams that have been pronounced with the aid of rights holders. In whole we received 66 DMCA requests, we had been able to behave towards 30, within minutes. the rest streams had already ended or had been now not available.

asked about Costolo’s tweet, whether or not the company had any more remark or clarification on that, there used to be no answer. but Twitter did say that it seeks to beef up its anti-piracy tools:

We admire the mental property rights of rights holders. we are working to ensure there are powerful tools are in location so one can react expeditiously.

The challenge is beautiful difficult. there were simply lots of if not hundreds of streams of the struggle going this weekend, all simply discovered off the Periscope (and Meerkat) house monitors:

If Twitter is depending on rights-holders to file complaints to prevent all these, the subsequent time an incredible event like this happens, it’s going to be a constant barrage of complaints filed, plus a lot time wasted when lots of these streams finish sooner than they even get acted upon.

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