They still are anything but sad about it. The amount of pirated music on their platform is mind boggling.

A lot of that is fully monetized by the copyright owners.

Now maybe, but not when starting up.

Or the random person who uploaded it.

Youtube automatically identifies almost all copyrighted music when videos are uploaded and copyright owners can decide who will be the one to monetize it. Almost all of the major players have the monetization assigned to themselves.

Do you have any data on that? In practice I’ve only seen this for semi-recent top40 major label releases.

I’m referring more to the sheer volume of back catalog older/indie music that users have digitized from vinyl. I’ve talked to several indie label managers who gave up years ago trying to monetize/fight youtube with c&d letters.

This system actually is renowned for false positives and generally poor classification with no recourse for fixing its mistakes. A funny and telling related story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523

How do you know that?

There are tons of whole albums which are definitively not "monetized" by their makers.

E.g. old stuff where the band does not exists anymore or all the low selling genres where nobody cares. It is not a bad thing since i discovered a lot of cool stuff like that.

There's some long tail stuff that isn't, but the large majority is.

A breakdown of how the system works (they're trying to sell music for you to use, but it's still a good writeup):

https://www.safemusiclist.com/can-use-copyrighted-music-yout...

I wouldn't say that they're "sad" about it but they clearly seem to put the effort to remove it, it's possible to find some pirated content (movies, music, TV footage etc...) but it's definitely a lot more difficult than any other streaming site I'm aware of. Go to a website like dailymotion if you want to see a "mind boggling" amount of pirated content (and even then, it's relatively tame compared to even smaller streaming sites).

It's a clearly a consequence of Youtube being owned by a tech giant and having such a high profile, all the right holders are willing to tell their lawyers to pull the trigger if they find their content hosted illegally on Youtube. It's probably easier and cheaper for Google to be proactive about it than dealing with the probably tremendous amount of complaints that would be generated if they waited for right holders to make a move.

Look up Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on Youtube.

If you can steal from Disney, Youtube doesn't care. And no these videos are not being monetized by the creator.

> And no these videos are not being monetized by the creator.

How do you know that?

You could upload one yourself and you would get a notice if it gets monetized by the creator.

>You could upload one yourself and you would get a notice if it gets monetized by the creator

It may or it may not; I fail to see how that test would lead you to a conclusion here. You're making an assertion and really you have no idea.

We know because when Disney finds their content on Youtube they have it removed, they don't compromise their premium channels for the pittance in ad revenue they would get from pirate garbage.

The uploaders get through the filters with really strange editing tricks, cropping the screen and editing random bits together. It's not a level of quality that Disney would like to have associated with their brand in even the most unofficial way.

> The uploaders get through the filters with really strange editing tricks, cropping the screen and editing random bits together.

That they do, not wrong there.

I remember I started using Youtube originally because they had pretty much every season of every TV show uploaded there.