The news out of Twitter HQ continues to make us shake our heads. This week, Elon Musk announced that Twitter Blue subscribers could now upload two-hour videos; almost immediately, someone uploaded a bootleg of Shrek The Third. It's gone now, but the point remains: Twitter video is going to be abused.
We know that because it already is being abused in the form of animal cruelty videos, which the site's decimated moderation team already seems unable to cope with. And while that's obviously repellent it's also a relatively small problem compared to copyright infringement, which is done by many more people in much more public ways – and unlike defenceless animals, film studios have very expensive defences in the form of very expensive lawyers. I can't see this ending well.
