[konart]

This is very far from truth unless you only listen freshs pop music. And even then it is easy to click a song only to receive "not available in your region".

[mghackerlady]

no, I've found many an album on youtube that isn't anywhere else and was uploaded by a random guy 10 years ago

[konart]

Yes, same can be said for Vkontakte, for example (thanks to its piracu police and user uploads)

But this is kind of a different story.

Likewise at somepoit Russia passed a law that made all soviet movies and cartoons public and obviously studios started using YT as their hostding platform.

But this is not a default case. Just a lucky coincidence.

[marysol5]

That's still piracy

[abc123abc123]

What? I find plenty of jazz and classical music on youtube. yt-dlp -x is your friend.

I find it amusing that youtube can be the source of my "pirated" music and get away with it. But the piratebay guys got their lives smashed to pieces.

But that I guess, is our civilization today. One set of rules for politicians and corporations, and one set for the slaves.

[konart]

See my sibling comment.

Yes, if the owner uploads somthing to yt and\or if the composition in public domain - it will be there. But that's it.

For example you have Netherlands Bach Society on Youtube. And I most likely can upload a rare Chaliapin's recording.

But:

- this one big "IF".

- this won't work same way for some rare Michael Jackson composition, for example.

[marysol5]

TPB were actively advocating and facilitating the upload of owned content. YT reacts to takedown requests and even re-directs advertising revenue to the rights holders.

You know TPB is a company right? They even run a paid VPN service. And half of their business was "bulletproof hosting".

[abc123abc123]

Plenty of pirate material on yt, and I couldn't care less about what organizational format tpb have. I'll support them against Google every day of the week, since they are not hellbent on creating a socialist surveillance society.