Youtube had no tech and was built on piracy to grow quickly and seize the market as fast as possible in order to reach their objective of being bought by one of

Youtube had no tech and was built on piracy to grow quickly and seize the market as fast as possible in order to reach their objective of being bought by one of the giant corp. Contentid is from google after they bought youtube and was added as an afterthought to deal with the "we own this content, pay us now" industry.