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> I don’t know a single person who pirates music anymore. What do you think the biggest category is, by every measure, on YouTube? There are lots of distribut
by doctorpangloss 2y ago
> I don’t know a single person who pirates music anymore.
What do you think the biggest category is, by every measure, on YouTube?
There are lots of distribution and payment mechanics changes over the years across creative industries. So it's very hard to generalize. But strictly in terms of piracy, there are more than enough non-monetized audio uploads on YouTube to say, music piracy is alive and well.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoYouTube's Content ID systems ensures that the vast majority of uploads pay royalties to the performer. Those royalties may be miniscule, but they are paid.
- doctorpangloss 2y agoSure. I too have heard many “performers” celebrate the effectiveness of content ID. They all talk about how that was the end of piracy. Thats exactly how they put it: “Content ID ended piracy.”
- TeMPOraL 2y agoImplementation detail. What matters is the UX: think of a song, search for it, there it is on YouTube. Open the link and it plays. No payment needed, for a long time not even an account. The platform itself was pretty inobtrusive for most of its lifetime; it's gotten quite bad recently, but for most of those who care enough to do something about it, uBlock Origin clears out the UX of all the bullshit. Pirates couldn't possibly beat that if they tried. But it only exists because of an accident of history: YouTube got big on pirated content early enough and fast enough they could transition to "content id" instead of getting sued to oblivion.
- soulofmischief 2y agoYouTube's UX is a huge reason why I use it for music as much as I do. And not even pirated music but indie releases, etc. The recommendation algorithm isn't all too terrible on some days. But I do prefer more navigable and preservable systems. At least yt-dl still works for the time being.