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Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled
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YouTube was built on illegal content and still has a buttload of illegal content and Google knows it but won't do anything about it. Let's not call the kettle black.
If they really want to be serious about it fine, turn it into paid-only access. It will neatly solve the whole ad debacle and they won't have to play cat and mouse with VPNs and blocking and all these shenanigans.
Ask yourself why they don't do that. It's because 90% of the content on there is illegal and when they host it for free they have an excuse. But if they turn the whole thing private and ask for money to access it they become liable for all of it.
90% is definitely not illegal. Have numbers to prove it?
Lol. Yeah it's all fresh or properly sourced material.
Go search for any music video. You should be finding exactly one (1) official entry. In some cases there are legit live recordings + montage that should also be only one of.
Instead there are dozens or hundreds, and most of them are not transformative enough to qualify for fair use. Google knows which ones are there illegaly because they are clearly able to identify and demonetize them.
But why not straight out delete them, or tell the uploader to delete them or else? Because they want to have lots of content regardless if it's legit, and they want to show ads, just as long as it goes to the right people.
They can put ads on questionable content that's free to watch as long as they're ready to remove it if and when asked, but they can't sell a product based on questionable content. It comes too close to what piracy websites are doing.
If the content owner doesn't care enough to take them down, why should Google? They're not liable. Everyone benefits.
I'm just explaining why Google can't put YouTube behind a paywall. It's fine as long as it's an open platform. If it becomes a paid product it raises the bar.
Y'all are delusional.