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Both Google and YouTube contain stolen and illegal content. There are lots of full length pirate movies on YT for instance. It doesn’t make it right but I just mean all companies should be equally judged by rules and regulations

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What you may not realize is that if that "stolen" media is logged in ContentID, both Google and the proper rightsholders are making money by running ads off every view (if they decide not to block it outright.)

That's mostly why YouTube still exists.

I believe many folks don't understand this and therefore wonder why random YT accounts can post clearly copyrighted material. Content owners can fairly easily capture the monetization of these videos even if its not under their account. Oftentimes it's best to just leave a video up especially if it has many views (and strong search visibility) and collect the $$ from the ads on it.

YouTube is actively taking that content down. Oftentimes overly zealously.

The case with pornhub was exactly the opposite.

Nope. YouTube just takes independent content down. On the other hand, YouTube allows original creators to monetize over those pirated content, by transferring all ads proceedings.

On the other hand, there's naked yoga on YouTube so....

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