One point to consider -- youtube pays license for a lot of the content and a lot of copyright holders have placed their music videos there.

That is not to say that there is a lot of "user uploaded copyright infringing content" there but they remove it as requested.

This is the way of the digital world and right or wrong its not going to change.

The courts agreed with Google -- Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., No. 07 Civ. 2103 (2010) it's settled ...