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Originally Posted by murraypaul
This is more than that.
Go to YouTube and search for "Full album".
Some of them are genuine authorised uploads, but the vast majority aren't, and many have been there for years with hundreds of thousands of views.
Google is intentionally taking no positive action to prevent copyright violations, of even the simplest type. They are closing their eyes and putting their fingers in their ears.
To add insult to injury, if you search for an album on Google Play Music, they will include links to the pirated YouTube uploads at the bottom of the page.
Amazon is similar with Twitch. If a Twitch streamer streams copyright music (which most do) all that happens is that a portion of their recorded VOD will be muted for later watchers. There is no penalty or warning to the streamer, even though Amazon have already determined that they are repeatedly violating copyright.
If you were running a car boot sale and knew that the same person had been selling copied CDs week after week, you would be considered complicit if you carried on allowing them to do it.
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What do CD's and boots have cars?
It comes down to something very simple. In the US, you have what is known as a safe harbor if you provide a platform and remove content when you get a take down notice. It's the only way the internet can actually work. A lot of governments would love to have everyone say "Mother may I" whenever they uploaded a picture or made a post, but then we wouldn't have the internet as we know it.