In addition to letting the creator know, you can also leave a comment on the Facebook video asking why they didn't credit the author. That's what I do. It makes the rest of the Facebook audience curious, as most of them are usually unaware of the YouTube or Newgrounds content creator.

Good job. As for the person below me this is mainly about facebook. It is true that youtube can be easy to manipulate but then you have the facebook support desk that not only is slow but will just tell you to bugger off even if you are the original content creator and you're able to prove that. Ive seen a youtube video have 100k views and then on facebook bam 3 million, no credit to the original creator and with facebook and possibly the uploader making money off it.

Oh, I definitely have to play devil's advocate to this. There are so many issues to mention here that this video pretends doesn't exist, and it stands to make worse by misleading people into thinking that they don't exist.

It is my understanding that the OPPOSITE is true. That it is all too EASY for NON owners of content to file false DMCA complaints and get videos flagged and DELETED, just because those videos contradict their worldviews. So for instance thunderf00t and TheBibleReloaded have constantly had to fight the Christians when they talk about why creationism is bullcrap and the social justice warriors when they talk about why feminism is a bullcrap, because the Christians and the SJWs LIE and tell youtube "I own the rights to this video, take it down immediately", and then youtube takes it down automatically without any delay, and then the people who made the video are forced to try to file an appeal with youtube to get their own video put back up - and the appeal goes to a BOT which then issues a message insisting that it came from "the youtube team" and that after much consideration, they have determined that it indeed was a policy violation, and their accounts are then limited on top of it and they are not allowed to upload any videos in excess of 15 minutes in length, and then months of constant trying later, MAYBE an actual human employee of google will ACTUALLY look at their complaint and put the video back up and remove the 15 minute restriction on the account.

In addition to this, what happens when content is actually destroyed, gone forever? Especially if it was something you liked, you're not going to be cursing the people mirroring it then. Like one of my favorite videos, which was popular at the end of George W. Bush's presidency, fuckyoubush.com which was a very well put together fake state of the union address with bits and pieces of things Bush said put together to make it look like he was endorsing chaos and murder. Where is it now? Gone. If some people had stolen that video, that wouldn't be the case. Just compare the material now with just a fraction of a century ago. Before VCRs, there is SO MUCH STUFF which aired and just doesn't exist any more. MANY of the original episodes of Dr. Who. Large portions of the movie Lost Horizon. All of that could have been prevented if there HAD been some piracy back in its day! Sure, you don't like the pirates profiting off of other people's work, but that's a short term effect and incidental to protecting the information, and WELCOME TO THE HUMAN RACE! That's all people do! Every damn rich person on Earth is rich because of other people's work. At least to a large extent. You know, Bill Gates for instance. Sure, he did some programming, and some corporate management, and some investing. But has he actually EARNED 100 billion dollars? No he hasn't. No one has. Certainly not anyone via investing, that's just gambling, gambling and passively owning a company that literally profits from its employees' hard work, while the employees are sitting there underpaid for the work they do, that's where company's profits come from. You know why McDonalds is a good investment? Because they acquire cheap, low quality food, which people line up to buy at prices that are several times the prices of equivalent amounts of food at grocery stores, and they underpay their employees. The money piles up. Where does it go? Investors. They didn't earn it, they made that money stepping on the backs of the underpaid employees.

So the reality of the matter is neither extreme. I think you should be allowed to mirror other people's material, provided you do not sell ads on it and credit them if possible. The original owner may not like it, not getting max ad revenue from every view their videos garnered, but the videos will be preserved AND the videos will get more publicity PERIOD. Allow me to give you an example of a very well made, very clever and good youtube video that has a very small number of views considering its quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMW_hPS5bKE - now, you can be sure that if a youtube channel that was more viewed put up the same thing, it would have MILLIONS of views. If smosh or pewdiepie or the fine brothers had it up on their channels, it would be VIRAL. Or if a dozen little guys stole it and mirrored it, each one is another chance for the video to strike it rich in the internet view lottery. God, you think that thing is less worthy of views than stupid Nyan Cat? Of course not. Views don't come about because of QUALITY, they're a self-fulfilling prophesy, views happen because views happen. And if a video like the one I mentioned WAS stolen, it would be more opportunity for it to get its FAIR share of public interest, more people would know about it, and even if it was one of the stolen ones that initially became viral, it wouldn't be long before people said "hey, you should watch the original", and that is publicity that would have not existed if it had not been pirated. So NO, that is why there is NOT widespread agreement that piracy is bad. This is why the famous artist Nina Paley says "copying is an act of love". Here, see the thing she's the most famous for here, NOT even on her own channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY

This is not to say that Eric Bauman (ebaumsworld) isn't a piece of human refuse. That's certainly way too far in the extreme of allowing it. CERTAINLY pirates adding their own watermark or in any way modifying the material unless it's for fair use purposes like "react to" videos, that is not ok.

Speaking of which, you also obviously do not understand what "fair use" is, since you continually showed caricatures of the Fine Brothers, who have made a career on "react" videos. No, that is not STEALING videos. Now, they ARE worthless people who have done nothing of value, and went as far as to try to pretend they own the rights to the very concept of "reactions" to other videos, and THAT is abhorrent, but they themselves have not made a career out of stealing others' videos, "reactions" to other people's videos are fair game whether you like it or not.

*insert 2005 anti-piracy advert*

It would be ironic if someone took this video and uploaded it as his own.