Their position is "In order to become a dominant force in short video we need to infringe copyright, so we're going to do that until we're dominant, then we're

Their position is "In order to become a dominant force in short video we need to infringe copyright, so we're going to do that until we're dominant, then we're going to act shocked and outraged that people are infringing copyright on our plaform and start attacking the content creators that gave us our success in the first place". Problem is that first stage is much harder if you're a multi-billion dollar company.