Snaptik broke for three days. Leo worked frantically, patching the API. But during those 72 hours, Mira posted a video directly to TikTok—a time-lapse of a crimson phoenix she'd woven. It got 8 million views. By morning, it was gone.
Leo's lawyer—a pro-bono activist—argued: "A watermark is not authorship. The hands in the video are. Mr. Keller's tool merely allows creators to exercise their moral right to preservation." snaptik tik tok
From users: "You stole my dance. It got 20 million views, but someone re-uploaded my Snaptik download to Instagram. Now they have the credit." Snaptik broke for three days
He opens it. A teenager in Jakarta has saved a video of his grandfather humming a folk song. The caption reads: "He has dementia. This is the only way he remembers the tune. I don't want TikTok to lose it." It got 8 million views
He didn't expect millions of users.