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0 pointsrandomdata4y ago0 comments

> but has YouTube really changed?

Unquestionably. If you recall, YouTube originally made its mark by having pirated copies of the SNL Lazy Sunday skit floating around, which quickly saw it become recognized it as the place to watch all kinds of pirated TV shows.

Eventually they started enforcing duration limits to quash people uploading entire episodes, but it wasn't until the content ID system was implemented that it started to see that type of content disappear and the 'homemade' stuff take over.

The home videos may have always been there, but it wasn't why people were using the service originally.

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zokier4y ago

Which is in part why building youtube competitor is so difficult. Bootstrapping with pirated content is not something that will fly as easily in 2020 as it did in 2005

armchairhacker4y ago

When was the content id system implemented? I'm sure there were plenty of pirated videos on YouTube (honestly there still are but they use cuts/filters/awful quality to get around), but I remember homemade videos in the top charts even before 2008.

randomdataOP4y ago

2007, if the internet is to be believed.

gwbas1c4y ago

Strange, I've been peeking at YouTube since the beginning and I almost never used it for pirated content.

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