Has Youtube become stricter with copyrighted material?

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I joined Youtube in 2005, it was the greatest piracy sight ever Not long after it was cleaned up for the most part. The 10 minute restrictions stopped it a bit but you can still find the "part 1/7" videos which were made to outsmart it.

With content ID though it became nearly impossible. I still feel the worst time for copyrighted material was around 08 or so, I do think they became more relaxed in the 2010s.

Usually what I search for youtube is old and/or obscure shows that have no digital/dvd release and luckily most of those remain since no one cares to pull them. It's annoying when it's one of the above mentioned and it gets pulled but there's no other way to watch it besides piracy, so lame.

Watching cartoons and anime has never been easier though, movies and live action shows are definitely more difficult and often take you to shady websites.

Of course there's always torrents but who wants to download something just to watch and delete, streaming is just too convenient. I'd rather wait a year for Netflix to get a new season of a show than pirate for example.

Originally Posted by Powder

There are way better sites than Youtube for this sort of thing.

Not for "tribute" type videos and the like or just playing around with copyrighted content with compilations and whatnot. Take Vegita's example, it's awesome to see an episode of the OT in 3D but it gets taken off but really there is no alternative, it's a fan creation.