I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but it is simply not plausible to believe that Google is trying to turn YouTube into a paid pirate stream site by blind-eyeing illegal content uploads and annoying users into paid subscriptions by ever-increasing ad load. For one thing, the company has really deep pockets and is very easy to find. Actual pirate streaming sites are much more ephemeral and have negligible assets that rightsholders could go after.
Kid, the media industry ITSELF is uploading that stuff "illegally", ever since at least Warner were caught red-handed, doing exactly that!
Because even with how utterly deluded those cokeheads are, even they realized that that way they actually make MORE money. Something small independent music labels had already figured out less than a year after Napster. (I worked in the business from 1999 to 2004, and had contacts until 2007.)
Doesn't seem very likely (Score:5, Interesting)
Google seems to have a really, really,
Blind-eyeing??? (Score:2)
Kid, the media industry ITSELF is uploading that stuff "illegally", ever since at least Warner were caught red-handed, doing exactly that!
Because even with how utterly deluded those cokeheads are, even they realized that that way they actually make MORE money.
Something small independent music labels had already figured out less than a year after Napster. (I worked in the business from 1999 to 2004, and had contacts until 2007.)
Because it is advertisement.
So, yeah, a silly theory.