Freebooting, the term for videos that have been downloaded from YouTube and then uploaded to Facebook, has become a huge issue for the creative community in recent months.
Freebooting gained attention over the summer when Hank Green, the prominent YouTube creator and co-founder of the Vidcon convention, wrote about the problem on Medium.
Now, a new video from Kurzgesagt Projects, a Munich-based animation and design studio, breaks down the issue.
The video has resonated with a large number of people, and has been viewed more than 1.2 million times on YouTube since it was first uploaded two days ago.
It shows how freebooters are able to take millions of views away from content creators and how Facebook makes it difficult to report this practice.
Facebook declined to comment on Kurzgesagt's video.
Check out how freebooting works, and why it has so many people upset.
Facebook says that 8 billion videos are viewed each day on Facebook.
The company touted that stat in a call with investors last week.
But a report this year found that the majority of the most-viewed videos on Facebook are stolen from YouTube.
A July report from Ogilvy and Tubular Labs that found that 725 of the 1,000 most popular videos on Facebook during the first quarter of this year had been stolen from Facebook.
These videos accounted for a whopping 17 billion views.
But the creators didn't actually get credit for them. That's because the videos were uploaded in Facebook's player, not in the original YouTube player from the person or group that created the video.
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