While I see where all of the concern comes from, there are major problems when it comes to trying to regulate current technology. The first problem is that many of the people writing legislation don’t understand how the technology works or what their legislation is actually saying in terms of the technology. I will use a US federal judge as an example where he ruled that all ISP’s and other providers had to make it so that this one website can never show up again(oversimplification for brevity). This is literally impossible because you can’t ban all domains they might possibly get and even if you could ban the domains, you can’t ban them from showing up as a different entity with a different IP.

The next major problem that I see particularly in the US is that technology is changing faster than we can understand it as a species. We have entered into an era where the technological landscape changes every 10 years, and we can’t even fully figured out equality rights despite having this fight for more than 50 years.

The next problem ass I see it you run into with technology regulation is the regulations need to outpace the technology. One you let it out you can’t really put it back. Let’s take some of the AI’s currently. Creators found out their AI was being used for things they didn’t like so they removed that capability. This just led to the people that were doing that to creating another instance of an AI that would.

And the last that I’m going to bring up is that like you mentioned it has to be a global effort. Internet and any technology that uses IP base anything is a global technology. Oh we want to limit this to this one geographic area, that’s fine I’ll just fire up a VPN. Oh you blocked all the major VPN IP addresses, that’s cool to I’ll just get this cloud server in the country I want with a static public IP and VPN tunnel into it and now I’m still in that country. Unless they literally block off networking with other countries, which causes major major issues, there is no way to stop that.

I would love to see some good regulation happen that ensures everybody is safe from the dangers that technology brings. But I guess that I’m a pessimist by thinking that it may be to late.

Not really other than personal preference

YouTube in this instance doesn’t host the content in this instance. They are merely providing a platform that others are allowed to post content to. Part of the agreement you “sign” when you sign up for YouTube is that you won’t upload content that doesn’t fully belong to you. As a way to help enforce this they have their infamous copyright system in place. YouTube basically takes the stance of you said you owned this, they said you don’t we are removing it, and if you think it’s unfair you can go to court with them.

YouTube also isn’t responsible for the content that gets uploaded to them, this is thanks to a series of lawsuits and legislature that in basic terms says a public forum isn’t responsible for its users as long as there is “an effort” to keep misinformation and other harmful things off the platform. For something the size of YouTube this is literally impossible and people know that. YouTube’s “effort” is the report functions and copyright protection systems.

In your instance either a different person has posted the album or Pink Floyd has. If it’s a different person they can be reported to YouTube and it would be removed. If Pink Floyd did then it’s entirely legal.

Yeah, I was mostly a lurker on reddit, but actually posted a lot more than I thought I did. I’m cleaning out my account now. But I’m not deleting it yet. I want to give it a few weeks to see if they try to role back any accounts to restore some of the content that was lost.

Here’s hoping I post even more here.