REPORT: Twitter’s Copyright Strike System Is Broken

The Verge reports:

Twitter’s copyright strike system appears to be broken. Naturally, one user took this as an opportunity to post the entire The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift movie in a series of two-minute clips spanning nearly 50 tweets. The thread has been up for almost a whole day now, and the fact that it hasn’t been taken down yet is a likely side effect of the hundreds of employees who resigned from Twitter earlier this week.

Read the full article. Rather obviously, if left unrepaired, movie studios, television networks, and streaming platforms will be unlikely to continue advertising.

Automatic copyright flagging is a labor-saving system designed to spare Twitter staff (and copyright holders) from having to respond individually to DMCA takedown requests, a laborious process.

If the automatic system is not working, Twitter staff will be unable to keep up.

— Chad Loder – @[email protected] (@chadloder) November 20, 2022