The issue with YT isn't with people getting access to ripped content. It's with Google running occasional ads on top of that content, and getting "access" to a

The issue with YT isn't with people getting access to ripped content. It's with Google running occasional ads on top of that content, and getting "access" to advertisers' big, fat, greasy dollars -- without any form of compensation (or yielding of rights of artistic control) to the creators. Unless they take very aggressive action to force Google to do otherwise, that is.