Twitter's copyright system seemingly broken as full-length movies are posted on platform

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Cracks are starting to show on Twitter as users have begun to post entire movies on the platform, with many yet to be taken down. A sign that the social media giant's copyright violation policy is not properly being enforced.

One Twitter user went viral this weekend after posting the entirety of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in 2-min long chunks, totaling over 50 tweets. As reported by Forbes, the account has been suspended, however, the media itself did not go down with it for quite some time. Other users posted the 1995 film Hackers and the 2009 film Avatar, both of which have also been taken down.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Those could hog bandwidth and muck things up a bit

Clog the Eloon Machine!

[Emrys]

2. Yup. This was one of the big issues highlighted when Musk

got all excited because one of the early low-hanging fruit he could "deliver" was longer embedded videos. It's evident the facility already existed but hadn't been rolled out.

Maybe that was because problems with copyright etc. had been flagged up and policies and procedures had yet to be resolved, so it wasn't just a question of flicking a switch.

It's an issue YouTube (a major player as an example) constantly battles with and has to devote a lot of resources to enforcing. Coders alone can't do all that.

[MichMan]

3. People posting here circumvent paywalls regularly