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Originally Posted by WarChild
Don't be fooled in to thinking that there's no actual users uploading huge movies. I know you think that just because you don't see the sense in doing it. Why would anyone upload stuff for no personal benefit. It seems like a logical argument, but in practice, people do it.
Sites like surfthechannel.com, or anyone of the thousands of copies have users uploading entire tv shows, edited to remove commercials, etc etc. No benefit for doing it, and yet they do it.
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sure they do it called access shifting, when they upload such a video they can access it from anywhere they want. They can watch it at home, at work, just by opening a web browser and going to the site.
They can get rid of their locally stored copy and use that web stream as a back up for the video they paid for.
Torrents are the same way, seed to the swarm get rid of the local copy, if i ever want to watch it again, just reconnect to the swarm and recreate the file again.
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Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there aren't tube site owners doing it and pretending to be users. Of course there are, and it may just be that the majority of uploads come this way, but just don't doubt that there are some users doing it too. 
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i suspect that a lot of uploads are user uploads they are just replicated, a new tube site rips an existing tube sites content, keeps the usernames and uploads the same for the database (syndication) and starts from scratch accepting new submissions.
What was originally user uploads is replicated by the webmaster, it still meets all the conditions of the safe harbor provision so it still dmca protected act.