{"id":31151,"date":"2025-07-05T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31151"},"modified":"2025-07-05T09:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T09:26:37","slug":"youtube-pirates-are-cashing-in-on-hollywoods-summer-blockbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31151","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood\u2019s Summer Blockbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.<\/p>\n

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After spending about $100 million on \u201cLilo & Stitch,\u201d a live-action remake of a 2002 animated film, Disney had plenty to celebrate. The film pulled in $361 million worldwide on its opening weekend in May and bested \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning\u201d at the box office.<\/p>\n

But the company also had cause to be concerned. In the days after the Disney film\u2019s opening, a pirated version of \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d proved to be a hit on YouTube, where more than 200,000 people viewed it, potentially costing Disney millions of dollars in additional sales, according to new research from Adalytics, a firm that analyzes advertising campaigns for brands.<\/p>\n

The findings of the research shed new light on the copyright issues that once threatened to upend YouTube\u2019s business. They also show how advertisers have unwittingly supported illicit content on YouTube, and they provide rare data about piracy on the platform.<\/p>\n

YouTube has long tried to tamp down piracy, but users who upload stolen films and television shows have employed new tactics to evade the platform\u2019s detection tools, the research showed, including cropping films and manipulating footage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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YouTube then recommended the uploaded videos to users on its homepage, promoting pirated streaming of box office releases like \u201cLilo & Stitch,\u201d or movies exclusively available on streaming platforms, like \u201cCaptain America: Brave New World,\u201d according to screen recordings compiled by Adalytics and an analysis by The New York Times.<\/p>\n

YouTube, which is owned by Google, may also have generated revenue from some stolen videos, though it\u2019s unclear how much money the platform may have made.<\/p>\n

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More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.After spending about $100 million on \u201cLilo & Stitch,\u201d a live-action remake of a 2002 animated film, Disney had plenty to celebrate. The film pulled in $361 million worldwide on its opening weekend in May and bested \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning\u201d at the box office.But the company also had cause to be concerned. In the days after the Disney film\u2019s opening, a pirated version of \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d proved to be a hit on YouTube, where more than 200,000 people viewed it, potentially costing Disney millions of dollars in additional sales, according to new research from Adalytics, a firm that analyzes advertising campaigns for brands.The findings of the research shed new light on the copyright issues that once threatened to upend YouTube\u2019s business. They also show how advertisers have unwittingly supported illicit content on YouTube, and they provide rare data about piracy on the platform.YouTube has long tried to tamp down piracy, but users who upload stolen films and television shows have employed new tactics to evade the platform\u2019s detection tools, the research showed, including cropping films and manipulating footage.YouTube then recommended the uploaded videos to users on its homepage, promoting pirated streaming of box office releases like \u201cLilo & Stitch,\u201d or movies exclusively available on streaming platforms, like \u201cCaptain America: Brave New World,\u201d according to screen recordings compiled by Adalytics and an analysis by The New York Times.YouTube, which is owned by Google, may also have generated revenue from some stolen videos, though it\u2019s unclear how much money the platform may have made.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31153,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31154,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31151\/revisions\/31154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}