Elon Musk‘s new function for Twitter Blue subscribers — the flexibility to add two-hour movies — has been used for movie piracy.
On Thursday (Could 8), the proprietor of the social media platform announced that Twitter Blue subscribers would now be able to post 120-minute-long (8GB) videos.
Shortly after the announcement, one verified consumer took benefit of the brand new function and uploaded Shrek The Third in its entirety.
The publish at the moment sits on the high of the replies to Musk’s preliminary tweet. Nevertheless, the video add has since been disabled “in response to a report by the copyright proprietor.”
Different customers have since been making the most of the function to share extra copyright-infringed movies, similar to films, full sports activities matches and live performance occasions.
fuck it. shrek the third. pic.twitter.com/twp5dKJeog
— coinbilly (@coinbilly_) May 18, 2023
Musk’s time as Twitter’s CEO has been mired in numerous controversies since his acquisition of the platform. He has fired a number of high executives at Twitter and half of its employees since he purchased the web site final October for $44billon (£36.5bn).
The platform has struggled to sort out copyright infringement following the numerous reductions to the positioning’s workforce (dropping from 8,000 to 2,300 workers). Twitter Blue has additionally difficult issues, with verified customers now with the ability to impersonate celebrities and different notable figures.
Hate speech additionally reportedly spiked on the positioning after his takeover, whereas customers had been suggested to archive their Twitter historical past after hypothesis the platform might collapse again in November.
Final week, Musk introduced that Linda Yaccarino would take over as Twitter’s new CEO. Regardless of solely taking on the position in October, Musk promised late final yr that he would step down as soon as he had discovered “somebody silly sufficient to take the job”.
The choice got here after he polled Twitter customers over whether or not he ought to give up as CEO, to which 57.5 per cent of respondents voted sure.
Musk mentioned that Yaccarino will “focus totally on enterprise operations”, whereas he turns his consideration to product design and new expertise.
The billionaire additionally confirmed {that a} rebrand of Twitter to X was imminent. “Wanting ahead to working with Linda to remodel this platform into X, the every thing app,” he added.