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Originally Posted by Dean Roddey  Well, they could use the same things for copyrighted material as well. If they aren't named correctly folks can't find them, so they tend to have the names of the songs. Though, they don't allow user reports for copyrighted material. It has to be the copyright owner, even if you know for a fact it's not supposed to be there.
Either way, I guarantee you you'll find WAY more illegal music than porn there, because they make no effort to remove any of it themselves, though they know it's been requested to be removed numerous times before. All they have to do is make it so onerous for copyright holders to police it themselves, and enough time for the reporting process to be carried out, that there's always a copy of whatever anyone wants up there, and so people come there by the bazzillions and they rake in the dough. |
True, but you're nitpicking. There's plenty of music available on youtube which is there legally, and it's only one of many avenues a person can use to listen for free without being a pirate.
I think you're also greatly underestimating the difficulty of tracking copyright and banned material based on text searches, especially when you take into account the prevalence of live performances, covers, and interviews/discussions by and about the artists.