Comment by givinguflac

This bothers me too. Sure one can claim there's a legal remedy, but Youtube was built on pirated content, and Google knows it. Even today I can go watch many, many pirated shows on youtube. It's been years that uploaders have evaded detection by simply mirroring (left to right, not hosting elsewhere as well) the video or slightly speeding up/slowing down the audio and/or video. Either google is willfully ignorant or they aren't as great at 'searching' for pirated content as they'd like us to believe. I think the former is much more likely.