For example, Garth Brooks is notorious for sending out DMCA requests liberally on all unauthorized platforms, yet I can search YouTube and find all of his songs easily that have been there for years and are obviously unofficial channels. I know YouTube has an algorithm, and Garth Brooks is a pretty well known artist, so I don’t see how the algorithm could not detect and remove these. Garth himself could search and find these as easily as I could, I imagine, so how do they stay up?
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Yuotube has a couple of different ways they allow people to deal with violations. One is to have the problem video removed. Another is to allow it to remain, but to demonetize it for the original uploader. That is, if there is an ad on the video, the money goes to the copyright owner (the music company, in this kind of case) and not to the person uploading the video.
Many artists only care about “piracy” in the sense that they aren’t getting paid, so if YouTube provides a method that they get paid for someone listening to their songs even if it’s just some random internet guy posting, they’re OK with it.
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