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Yeah, but youtube doesn't charge you to watch the videos...

And Scribd doesn't charge you to read the documents. And for some of their videos, YouTube allows you to download them for a fee.

YouTube has ads on videos. It's the same as a TV station airing a pirated DVD and selling the ads

Youtube goes to a great deal of trouble to only have ads on verified content.

YouTube is still monetised by advertising... still making profit, though I guess its more upfront.

Except people post whole books to Scribed, while on YouTube, you can't post a whole ripped DVD in one post.

That doesn't give it any ethical high ground though...