Above is a link to the popular website afore mentioned. Recently in the internet news because they are doing what they want with their own website. Many people are upset because a business is setting their website up the way they want it to work.
Many many self entitled people do not think a business should be allowed to run the way they want to completely overlooking the fact they are quite within their rights to open a website in competition. Were they to do this they could do what they want on their own website just like youtube is doing.
In other news crowds of people are filling wal-mart and demanding to see the store manager about re-arranging the layout of the store.
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While google is perfectly withing their rights to do whatever they please with their property, youtube's entire existence depends on the content creating community that uses it. You make things needlessly difficult for the content creators, you ruin the entire system. In the end it's money out of google's pocket because they're taking down perfectly legal videos that could be producing ad revenue; google is shooting themselves in the foot by limiting content creators.