The DMCA, flawed as it is, would have saved YouTube's existence. They created ContentID to mollify the Content industry into playing nice and creating the dumpi

The DMCA, flawed as it is, would have saved YouTube's existence. They created ContentID to mollify the Content industry into playing nice and creating the dumping ground that is Vevo and letting their products appear in the Google Play store. Without Content ID, they surely would not be playing along with Google's media store plans. YouTube the site is clearly and plainly within DMCA safe harbor and has absolutely no need for ContentID to continue operating. It is the other things Google wanted to do with big Content that required this asinine system.