YouTube it is the second largest platform on the planet, with 1.5 billion users who access it monthly, and this means that they must be very careful about the content available to them. YouTube is known as a source of video clips, but people also use the platform to listen to music, or in some cases, to watch online movies, or watch press conferences, reviews and much more.
YouTube has recently emphasized live broadcasts through its platform, recommending them to users looking for various live streams to watch. A lot of people are interested in watching live content on YouTube, but the company unwittingly recommends live broadcasts that display illegal content for users accessing its platform, and this could bring at least a few lawsuits.
YouTube recommends to users movies and online series that are transmitted illegally through the live platform, and it seems that there are many active transmissions of this kind. We are talking about various people on the planet who use YouTube to broadcast online movies or TV series, earning in return money from the advertisements displayed for those who access their channel to see them.
YouTube displays illegal content to users
YouTube can display any kind of content in these live streams, from normal online movies to adult movies, but in most cases we are talking about Hollywood productions. It is, moreover, very simple for anyone to transmit through YouTube whatever they want for any kind of people because the streams are discovered with difficulty and are closed only after the transmissions end.
YouTube has had this problem for some time, but it seems that it has only recently been accused, and the company has not yet declared anything to reassure its stakeholders. YouTube is used to transmit content for which various partners ask a lot of money for distribution in this way, so YouTube could be attacked in court to receive compensation due to the free transmissions made through the platform.
YouTube has no way to block these transmissions because it would be necessary to analyze each live stream in real time to see what is happening within it. The alternative would be for YouTube to hire people to "guard" the live streams and it has no way to do that, so that things will continue in the same way, and users will continue to enjoy the free content.
