Most people have extremely weird ideas of what's considered piracy and what isn't. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that's somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not piracy either. Torrenting an album is piracy, but listening to a bootleg on YouTube isn't.

YouTube noticed this at some point and is now happy to let everyone know how much pirated music is available on their site. One of their main points for shilling YouTube premium is how their music catalogue is way better than Spotify. Of course the piracy site has more. That's always how it works. Spotify actually has to license the music on their platform and is subject to copyright law. They can't just get the Neil Young discography from soulseek one day and wait until his estate notices, facing no repercussions whatsoever aside from agreeing to a takedown request. Imagine if Pirate Bay or Napster were considered completely above-board businesses just because they took down torrents if explicitly requested by the copyright holders.

Not that I'm complaining especially when a lot of the music on youtube isn't publicly accessible anywhere else. It's just been extremely strange to see this go from an "open secret" to something they're shouting from the rooftops and face no repercussions for. In the future I want everything to be like that and I'd rather keep youtube how it is than see them get the punishment that by all rights they should be getting. It's just so strange that this is the position things have ended up in.

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[–] SnuggleSnail@ani.social 87 points 1 year ago (2 children)

YouTube and Spotify are paying license fees to be allowed to play music on their platform.

[–] jayrhacker@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I worked for one of the YouTube founders once, killed me when he explained how they benchmarked all the Copyright detection software available at the time and then picked the worst one to use for their licensing system.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this real?

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They posted it on the Internet, so it has to be.

[–] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Tagline for Lemmy (every social media in existence)

[–] jayrhacker@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You think someone would just do that? Just go on the internet and lie?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I only use the best lie detectors

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wanna know who is paying YouTube to allow those stupid fake movies trailers. I wish YouTube had a block channel option.

[–] MidRomney@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a block channel option. I use it all the time.

[–] webhead@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All I'm aware of is the don't recommend channel option. I still get stupid fucking channels (like emergency awesome) when I search. Am I missing the option somewhere?