Yeah it is certainly a huge issue and with some platforms like Reddit it is more like a person is stealing someone's "thunder" but on here and on YouTube where people are getting paid it suddenly changes everything.
That guy taking your content like that is really taking from all of us. He drains the reward pool and squeezes out real content creators like yourself. It drives interest away from STEEMIT and makes it seem like an unfair system and people bounce out.
Trust me..... I have had huge frustrations with YouTube overtime and started uploading my first videos back in 2008. It was real upsetting to see some of them not gain traction and then even a couple of years later kept getting rejected from the partner program. Eventually they opened it up to everyone and that became a revenue stream for me.
From the start of STEEMIT we have dealt with issues of people "gaming" the system. It all goes along with Game theory. Some people will take the high ground and stick to strict voting methods that will make them seem honorable in a way. Others will upvote themselves half the time. Others will try to upvote themselves all the time and won't even vote anyone else at all. Those accounts will be a whack-a-mole situation but it is something that @steemcleaners is dealing with. I have submitted it to one of the members. They already had that account on the list but they are going to look into it further.
It is a weird area for sure because you were looking to earn money on the video and letting everyone know about it. It is possible someone uses your affiliate links to the video gets "more exposure" in a way. It is weird and it frustrates me on here and YouTube for sure.
The hope is that people who are making a more positive contribution will eventually have enough power to just smash abusive accounts and then they will have to go through the constant trouble of recalibrating what they are doing by making new accounts or powering accounts down and trying to load up other accounts but that it will become so hard for them to do it that they learn it is just easier to just positively contribute to the community.
You brought up a couple interesting points. The first being in some ways I may look my content being reposted as a good thing as like you said I shared an affiliate link for RunCPA so the more people who watch the video the more chances I get at getting that link clicked and profiting that way.
I can kind of see it that way but I think I dropped my link in the writing below the video. While the link is in the description of the Youtube video, someone would have to from the Steemit post that guy reposted click the Youtube video at the top, be redirected and read the desciption but I have a chance most people would just view the embedded video and move on so I doubt I'd have too much upside in terms of exposure but you never know.
As far as people gaming the system like you said it happens on every platform, on Youtube I have one particularly popular video that went semi viral and I get 3-5 people per week reuploading it from various accounts. Ever since Youtube implemented the 10k views to monetize its helped a bit but no instead of people trying to make money off ads they repost my video and link to a jvzoo product or some ecommerce course they have or some other cpa offer.
Yeah I think it was a good idea for YouTube to implement the 10K rule to be honest. It helps keep these crack babies from just popping up accounts left and right just to get monetized off someone else's content.
Good news. @teamsteem upvoted your post and flagged that guy's post of your stuff.
The bad news is that guy has literally sharted out like 20 more posts doing the same thing since then. One including another one of your videos.
I talked to one of the members of @steemcleaners and they have a little bit of a track history on that user for plagiarism but they are always toeing the line of what is acceptable according to there criteria so they don't flag a lot of the posts.
haha of course he did lol, thanks for bringing it to my attention. i flagged that one. the least the guy could do is at least @rulesforrebels me instead of leaving off the @
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@crypto-p/bitcoin-falls-below-usd4-000-or-cryptos-hit-hard-or-bloody-morning