[DAllison]

> PS: Completely unrelated issue, just for fun search for "Logan's run" on Youtube, filter by "length > 20 minutes", and check out a few of the many results. ... Doesn't that waste huge amounts of Youtube storage? Why does Google not do anything about it, ML algorithms should have an easy time finding most of those uploads?

It's been prevalent for many years now. The files are typically a single image for the majority of the video, so compression should alleviate the storage issue.

These videos are likely very profitable for YouTube if ad-supported, given that they'll take very little data to store and serve.

I doubt the movie studios significantly care about removing them; the videos significantly frustrate pirates, likely causing a slight conversion to actual sales. To note: these results often appear on the ContentID dashboards (causing frustration for the studios), so this may be subject to change in future.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/fake-pirate-movies-annoy-pirates-an...

[1] http://www.voxindie.org/ywhy-is-youtube-such-a-garbage-dump/

[2] http://www.voxindie.org/why-doesnt-youtube-address-the-real-...