[kbs666]

! This is just not correct. The DMCA is very clear. I site owner cannot be pursued at all as long as it responds to take down notices in the required time period. It's not just not cost effective it isn't allowed. It's called a safe harbor. It doesn't matter how many infringing works you find on a hosting site as long as everyone you file a take down notice on is acted on promptly the rights holder has no recourse, of any kind, against the host site.

What YT has done is build a library of music they own the rights to and they allow any creator to use that music in their videos. YT also has an automated process which scans the entire catalog for videos that infringe and since they can't file a DMCA, only the rights holder can, they just take all the ad revenue and give it to you. They also do take down videos quite quickly if someone files a DMCA take down.

Furthermore this is 2019 not 1985. Every rights holder has to be aware their content will be distributed outside their control. They have every right to stop this but it is hypocritical in the extreme for any game company to publish PDF's with no copy protection at all and then complain because some hosting site had infringing material up until they filed a take down. To take away business from a company because of something like that is just one FB post away from a PR disaster for the rights owners and they know that.