Oatmeal Joey Arnold (@JoeyArnoldVN)

From a technical standpoint, the differences between downloading a video on Twitter and retweeting a video is trivial and too small to even talk about. You can't accuse a person of downloading because the nature of the Internet and computers and technology in general is that videos are already being downloaded, mirrored, reuploaded, etc, via the process of videos being stored on multiple website servers. A lot of is done automatically. And then there is cache and RAM and CPU and GPU and all these different hardware parts inside computers which literally downloads the videos as you are watching it because that is how you watch a video, that is how streaming works. When you watch a video on YouTube for example, your computer or device is downloading and then playing the video. So, therefore, why accuse one person of downloading a video when everyone downloads the video in order to watch it. As you watch the Tim Pool video on YouTube, you are downloading the video, but they don't call it downloading because the video is stored temporarily in RAM, CPU, GPU,. cache, things of that nature. We don't think of RAM as downloading because it may not be in the hard drive. But it is in the computer, just not on the HDD. And then you have the CIA and other agencies who can and do sometimes download videos and the Internet in general according Edward Snowden. And then there is the Fair Use argument. And copyright is a big debate to have too as it is dangerous. And then there is the debate regarding what is ok to do in a public space. And on top of that, videos are not tangible meaning you cannot demand private property rights on a video because a video is electrical signals. And the Internet is an ocean of electricity. But to copyright electricity would be one step towards copyrighting our brain waves which is electricity too. A video is like a bag of sand. When you put a video on the Internet, the sands of the video spreads all over the place. You can't contain the Internet any more than you can contain the wind. These are some of the issues that are overlooked when talking about all of these topics. And Facebook and others sell private information and personal data and metadata and things of that nature to third party companies, governments around the world, etc. And that may include videos, etc. Therefore, why get mad at somebody sharing a video that others have? People publish videos because they want people to see it. So, if somebody shares or reuploads the video, they are helping more people see it which is helpful to the original uploader who should pay the people who shared or reuploaded the video. Because it is the same as commercial and ads who pay money to have their videos shared and reuploaded. It is the same thing. It is hypocritical to say thou shalt not share my public video outside of an ad or if you are the CIA or an ad agency or a computer cache or a web server data center, etc, etc.