YouTube was mostly creator submitted allowing a free and open platform, which is not heavily censored.
Now it is.
The predecessor to Twitch, justin.tv, started this way too.
And Spotify?
Yup. You could sometimes find scene release group names in the metadata when Spotify beta launched. They cleaned it up in the "great purge" where 90% of my playlists became empty :)
Now, these same sites that grew to prominence based on the efforts of pirates are now going to lengths to thwart them.
Is there a better example of pulling the ladder up behind you than this? I can't think of one.
Hollywood is in California because film makers didn’t want to pay royalties to Edison on cameras.
Nimby property and development laws?
The founders of Spotify were involved with BitTorrent clients so it was a natural extension.
Youtube’s owners didn’t upload copyrighted content to their own site with fansubs. It was all in: go legit or die in a lawsuit.
> Youtube’s owners didn’t upload copyrighted content to their own site
This is, I believe, actually incorrect.
(the bit about fansubs is irrelevant to the overall business model)