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YouTube got big SPECIFICALLY cause they hosted pirated movies. Long before they were bought by Google.
by butlike 3y ago
YouTube got big SPECIFICALLY cause they hosted pirated movies. Long before they were bought by Google.
- dougb5 3y agoHold up, Google bought YouTube just a year and a half after YouTube went live. My memory is that the user-produced videos and memes were a way bigger draw than copyrighted material in the early days. That's not to say copyright infringement wasn't a problem by the time Google acquired it, but I remember it being more of a nuisance than the site's raison d'etre. (Source: was at Google then, and also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube)