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It's like you're making YouTube responsible for any leaked movies? It's always the user who does it. Plex is just a platform.

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Sure, but YouTube created the Content ID system in a settlement with Viacom in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y.... . Maybe the ruling would've been different if they appealed it to the supreme court, but that could've been a worse situation for everyone (e.g. because Google had to create Content ID, any sufficiently big service must also create a Content ID-esque system).

How many pirated movies do you see on YouTube? The platform very actively blocks such content.

A lot, actually. Typically they just speed it up a bit to bypass content ID.

What is a lot? 50% of all videos? 10%? 1%? 0.001%? Compare the share of copyright violations on YouTube vs Plex and it will be apparent what each service is really used for.

I just looked for three movies off the top of my head, 'xyz full movie' filtered for > 20 minutes

Every one of them was available on the first page of results!

Non-exhaustive, sure, but plenty of people use YouTube for piracy

Not really here to beat a horse, I think we're way off course. This is probably not that bad of a move, Hetzner auction servers are a major piracy hive.

And YT is actively removing pirated content. I am not saying this move by plex is the same thing, but at least it looks like they are doing something about piracy.

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