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YouTube 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 vi
by whatever1 5y ago
YouTube 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.