• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    I mean, it doesn’t really need to get to the courts, does it?

    Media providers are generally legal-phobic so they’ll just demonetise or suspend a video or clip while it gets sorted out… and as it’s usually all automatic in process with very few humans in the loop, it’ll take a while before it gets sorted out, where the impact of the unavailability video or clip will have had it’s full effect.

    If nothing else, it makes it a little more hostile for arseholes to use music or licensed content that they know is going to attract legal drama and tank their viewing numbers or viewer reach.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Media providers are generally legal-phobic

      They’re terrified of a bigger corporate interest getting in a pissing contest with their parent company / investment group. But they’re even more terrified of the regulatory power of the federal government. YouTube isn’t going to take down an ICE video that’s pirated Sabrina Carpenter any sooner than it’s going to take down one of Trump’s sniff films of airstrikes in the Caribbean.

      If nothing else, it makes it a little more hostile for arseholes to use music or licensed content

      This is only a technique that works on small fish in a big pond.