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Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by ChuckMcM on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:36PM (#27011285)
See that is the 'hook' then Google monetizes those petabytes without paying the people who uploaded them[1], that is the 'business model'.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/youtube-will-put-ads-on-non-...

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Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:57PM (#27011398)
I still don't think that this constitutes "seizing". YT provides the streaming service for the uploaded video, claims the ad revenue in exchange. I don't like it, but it's not "seizing".

Also, boring as it is, and aware as I am that I am in a tiny minority, I do not use a mobile device, and on my browser(s) I have uBlock Origin installed, as well as 69k entries in /etc/hosts to block any and all access to a huge number of known-to-serve-ad domains. I essentially never see YT ads.

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