- AI companies scraping YT without paying YT let alone creators for training data. Imagine how many data YT has.
- YT competitors in other countries scraping YT to copy videos, especially in countries where YT is blocked. Some such companies have a function "move all my videos from YT" to promote bloggers migration.
Like Google?
>scraping YT without paying YT let alone creators for training data
Like Google has been doing to the entire internet, including people’s movement, conversations, and habits… for decades?
Like Google competitors obviously.
> Like Google has been doing to the entire internet, including people’s movement, conversations, and habits… for decades?
Yes, but if you allowed to index your site (companies even spent money to make site better indexable), Google used to bring customers and AI companies bring back nothing. They are just freeloaders.
(not debating the validity of this reason, but this is the entire reason Youtube exists, to sell and push ads)
"Everyone else" do not allow to download music in an unencrypted format, so it makes sense if YT doesn't allow also.