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Youtube had a lot of illegal content early on and didn't make much effort to respect rightsholders etc. for a while until the service had taken off.
by chippiewill 2y ago
Youtube had a lot of illegal content early on and didn't make much effort to respect rightsholders etc. for a while until the service had taken off.
- diggan 2y agoRight, but that was more an unintended consequence of hosting user uploaded material. They still did delete stuff when companies (or their lawyers) wrote in to them requesting a take down. Compare that to Airbnb or Uber whose business model was "Ignore the law" in the very beginning, which is why they got banned in a bunch of places. YouTube's business model was never "Ignore the law" nor was it banned on as a wide scale as Airbnb and Uber.
- closewith 2y agoA growth strategy, not an unintended consequence. Early YouTube without copyright infringement would have died in obscurity.
- Cheer2171 2y agoWere you even on YouTube back then? It went viral for all kinds of viral home videos.
- 9rx 2y agoYouTube lived in obscurity until it became the top search result for “Lazy Sunday”.
- Cheer2171 2y agoAnd when NBC finally decided to issue a DMCA takedown months later, Youtube immediately complied. Because that is what the US has decided is the law around user-generated content. NBC had it up for free on iTunes and let it stay up on Youtube because it brought attention to SNL, until someone in NBC's legal or C-suite won some internal fight.
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- Cheer2171 2y agoYoutube did not advertise itself as a site for illegal content. The advertised and most popular way to use youtube was to upload content you made yourself. Hence the name YOUtube. With Airbnb, there is no way to use the service as a host without violating the law in lots of jurisdictions. The service literally exists to glean some profit off facilitating illegal hotels.