For those of us familiar with the YouTube Content ID system, Green is correct, and I had the same reaction. Upload your music to the system, set the policy to take down.<p>To give you an idea on how well this works, this is what the movie studios do - upload the entire move to YouTube and set it to takedown (usually if the matched portion matches more than 1 minute or something). The movie studios have a comparatively less stink about YouTube.<p>Secondly, its unclear if Azoff has a direct relationship with YouTube and has his own CMS or if he&#x27;s using a third party service to manage YouTube. In that case the third party could be misrepresenting the options YouTube has (and it could be the case that the 3rd party makes a revenue cut of the UGC set to monetize rather than takedown, giving them an incentive not take down [&#x2F;speculation]). However a percentage of the major labels music content is licensed via the partially-Google owned VEVO.<p>Third, with the release of RED and Google Play Music, and some of the rumored contracts that Google has with music producers, it could just be we aren&#x27;t privvy to the special contracts Google has with music rights holders. Maybe, due to the way their contracts are setup, that can&#x27;t issue takedowns. I remember Indies got particularly pissed[1] when RED was released.<p>My own personal opinion is that despite whatever content protection tools YouTube provides, the music industry won&#x27;t be happy until all their music is behind a paywall like Spotify Premium or Apple Music. I suspect their beef will always have to do with the &quot;for free&quot; aspect, regardless if the content is legitimate or pirated. If the issue were really about illegitimately consumed content, and if YouTube ContentID system was that bad for rights holders, I&#x27;d assume more than just the music industry would be annoyed. (It seems to be the other way round, ContentID is railed against for being much more generous to rights holders).<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalmusicnews.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;fk-heres-entire-youtube-contract-indies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalmusicnews.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;fk-heres-entire-y...</a>