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Google/YouTube is built on other peoples' content...
by asah 5y ago
Google/YouTube is built on other peoples' content...
- criley2 5y agoUsers must give youtube a permissive license to post videos. Not so for lyrics on Genius.
- whatever1 5y agoYouTube was hosting for years pirated song video clips. Then they just cut a deal with the music companies because they did not want to be out of the biggest video platform of the planet.
- ghaff 5y agoYeah, people forget that, for a long time, to many people YouTube looked like a business that would collapse the instant that rights holders got serious about cracking down on all the infringing content on the site--given that was what 90% of people probably went to the site for.
- thrashh 5y agoBut unlike Genius, YouTube was not forever beholden to just hosting existing content. Genius is never going to start hosting user created lyrics one day.
- pessimizer 5y agoBut YouTube did it by offloading liability for copyright-violating content onto uploaders. Youtube for years was 80% megaupload, but backed by an army of lobbyists. Scribd has TV commercials now, and is still in that stage.
- rchaud 5y agoPeople forget that in 2004 there were several streaming video sites. They all disappeared because they featured copyrighted content.
- Mikeb85 5y agoGoogle has an actual product (ads) and YouTube isn't built on pre-existing content, it's a platform for content creation (and ads for that content). Both add a lot more value than Genius did.
- bliteben 5y agoMovie clips and music videos are surely a double digit percent of youtube's views, not to mention other categories I may be missing.
- Mikeb85 5y agoAgain though, they're posted by the creators (every artist I know of has their own Youtube account, all the major studios post their own teasers) versus people re-posting others' stuff. Most Youtube content nowadays is pretty original.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoNowadays. YouTube became big through users uploading pirated music to it.