YouTube is like Napster, just a provider of a service. The people uploading the content are the ones that don’t understand the law, and break the law. You can’t hold CodingHorror responsible for this comment if I submitted it with copyrighted content and it stayed up for 30 minutes. Would YouTube exist without copyrighted content? Sure, look at all the independent artists now. It may not be as popular, but it would exist.