Hold 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 th

Hold 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)