Facebook Acquires Source3 in Bid to Prevent Video, Other Piracy

In its battle against pirated content,Facebookhas acquired a US-based startup Source3 to help it weed out pirated videos and other content that users share without permission.The startup builds technology to detect intellectual property that has been shared by Internet users without permission.According toa reportin Recode on Monday, Facebook was acquiring both the technology and some of the core team members of Source3.