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Factor in the long tail. Do you think most views on youtube are not user-produced then?

Milly Cirrus has an advantage when competing with user-generated content because she has an expensive publicist.



The Miley Cyrus videos are most likely licensed as well. It's really not difficult for record companies to take this stuff down if they want to: hire an intern at $8/hr to do searches for your top 50 artists and report the videos to youtube (they are pretty damn responsive). Bam, problem solved for < $30k a year. If the intern can't find the stuff it's not going to be doing much harm.




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