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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by gpvos on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:18AM (#16830770)
I can't think of any kind of ethics that would see these as a positive thing. What's possible and makes money for you isn't necessarily good.

Can you explain how littering Youtube with low-quality copyright-infringing videos contributes anything to society?

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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by damon_c on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:28AM (#16830884)
Whoa hold on... We have to contribute to society now?!
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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by solotronics on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:02PM (#16831809)
It is not so easy to correlate income with contribution in the modern economic system. I am really good at making more datacenters and populating them with servers but it gets kinda nebulous when you try and relate that with direct benefit to society. Yes large corporations can get their compute and storage cheaper than if they had their own servers, but does this actually net benefit humanity? Not sure.

It's easier to realize you make money because its making other people money ( nothing to do with benefit though ).

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