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They did legislate the problem away. Sure, Spotify and YouTube play a part in the reduced music piracy today. But it also helps that all of the music piracy sit
by squokko 4y ago
They did legislate the problem away. Sure, Spotify and YouTube play a part in the reduced music piracy today. But it also helps that all of the music piracy sites have been killed, and the only ones left are shady enough that you fear malware if you go there.
- Garlef 4y agoIt's streaming that killed piracy. And even piracy was only partially to avoid paying money: It was a huge UX win over CDs. The iPod would not have had the impact it had without piracy.
- ChrisRR 4y agoThere's no one single aspect that reduced piracy. There's multiple aspects that played their part
- capableweb 4y agoWorth remembering that both Spotify and Youtube got started with pirated music on their services and then worked it into fully legal platforms.
- pmoriarty 4y agoThere's still tons of pirated content on YouTube. Is it legal? I don't know. I guess they have the fig-leaf of taking down copyrighted content when asked. Fig-leaf not withstanding, if Google (YouTube's owner) didn't have such deep pockets I'd be amazed they didn't get sued in to oblivion like Napster.
- kennyadam 4y agoThere is a load of pirated content on there, but YouTube have successfully cowed every creator with a decent-sized audience into fearing more than a second or two of copyrighted music appearing in their videos.
- pmoriarty 4y agoThe point is that YouTube has managed to survive and even thrive despite hosting tons of content which infringes on copyright.
- squokko 4y agoYouTube didn't get sued early on because it didn't have any money to sue. After it was acquired, it was sued, and the current system is the agreement that Google and the rights holders came to (which has been incredibly profitable for both sides).