Heck, almost everything is available for free on YouTube.
I find it amusing that youtube can be the source of my "pirated" music and get away with it. But the piratebay guys got their lives smashed to pieces.
But that I guess, is our civilization today. One set of rules for politicians and corporations, and one set for the slaves.
Yes, if the owner uploads somthing to yt and\or if the composition in public domain - it will be there. But that's it.
For example you have Netherlands Bach Society on Youtube. And I most likely can upload a rare Chaliapin's recording.
But:
- this one big "IF".
- this won't work same way for some rare Michael Jackson composition, for example.
You know TPB is a company right? They even run a paid VPN service. And half of their business was "bulletproof hosting".
But this is kind of a different story.
Likewise at somepoit Russia passed a law that made all soviet movies and cartoons public and obviously studios started using YT as their hostding platform.
But this is not a default case. Just a lucky coincidence.