Massively Pirated YouTube Channels

[TeknoAXE]

I was wondering what your take was on the channels who's only goal seems to be to download as many videos as possible and then re-upload them with the same titles and sometimes information as well. I get that some of them do contain affiliated links that are supposed to make them money, but from what I can tell, there's a huge number of these channels that don't have that or any sort of information on their channels to indicate that they're selling anything in particular.

If these guys are trying to make money using adsense, then this also seems to be a failed business model. I've seen my videos get pirated only to get maybe 10 views on the overwhelming majority of them. The total amount of views on one channel doesn't seem to be even worth the effort of going through the whole process in the first place. No one's getting rich doing this, yet the spam channels keep on popping up with no real clear purpose.

It also makes me wonder, when YouTube brags about how many centuries worth of videos people post on their site each day, what percentage of that is pirated and re-posted.

Anyways, would love to hear your thoughts.

 

[ProphetXeD]

Your channel link is broken - you need to read the updated thread about channel links here: http://yttalk.com/posts/1405369/

People do this to try and get views. They go around seeing what is popular at that time, whats going viral and in an attempt to get views and a quick buck, they reupload and monetise. Im not sure if it works or not, but thats the general idea.

 

[six cylinder]

What makes me mad is when big channels just reupload trailers for views when they already have a huge avenue from their videos but thats not enough they wanna make cash of of other peoples work.

 

[chottom]

If these guys are trying to make money using adsense, then this also seems to be a failed business model. I've seen my videos get pirated only to get maybe 10 views on the overwhelming majority of them. The total amount of views on one channel doesn't seem to be even worth the effort of going through the whole process in the first place. No one's getting rich doing this, yet the spam channels keep on popping up with no real clear purpose.

It also makes me wonder, when YouTube brags about how many centuries worth of videos people post on their site each day, what percentage of that is pirated and re-posted.

Keep in mind that these people use bots to make all the uploading and re-uploading so I doubt it takes them more than 5-10 min to set up the channel ripoff process. Actually for 5 - 10 min they can set up multiple channels to be re-uploaded. Finally - they work on the spam principle - even if one out of 10 000 videos gets viral - they win (either through adsense either through affiliated links).

Why YouTube do nothing to stop this? I have no idea!

 

[MarkRodriguez2012]

Gah, I hate those kinds of channels. It shows that the copyright claim system is faulty. Someone that happens to have the song playing on the tv in the next room gets claimed or muted and yet channels playing the entire songs don't. It's so unfair.