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Originally Posted by pylon
Yeah, because it made sense to allow people to post full versions of movies recorded on an iPhone the day after it was released in the theatre. Awesome business model.
I thought you were in law enforcement? Isn't piracy illegal?
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He's probably talking about Google taking copyright claims automatically at face value and removing the video (and punishing the uploader) with little recourse. The most obvious and hilarious one I can think of at the moment is when a trailer for The Last of Us (uploaded by the publisher of the game, Sony) was taken down with a copyright notice from the Spike TV Video Game Awards (they had aired the trailer on their show). It's a bad, arbitrary system.
Google is transitioning everything to Google+. They want to make it more difficult to leave their sphere, where everything is tied to your real name. Advertisements attached to your real name are worth more than advertisements for users.