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Right, and if Vimeo became popular they'll be subject the same lawsuits until they're forced to screw over uploaders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_copyright_issues

>Organizations including Viacom, Mediaset, and the English Premier League have filed lawsuits against YouTube, claiming that it has done too little to prevent the uploading of copyrighted material.[8][9][10] Viacom, demanding $1 billion in damages, said that it had found more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of its material on YouTube that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times". YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works"

>Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over 12 terabytes of data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site

>In April 2012, a court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube could be held responsible for copyrighted material posted by its users. The performance rights organization GEMA argued that YouTube had not done enough to prevent the uploading of German copyrighted music



We can keep creating new platforms longer than they can pay their lawyers.


Can we? Sure KissAnime and 123movies clones will always pop up when one gets taken down, but that’s not a replacement for YouTube.




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