These costs are passed on to consumers.

My comment was a joke, so let me agree with some of what you said and disagree with some.

Actually, I think the music part would be easy if we are talking about someone posting an entire song. Have the screening app take a snippet from a random time block of the "video" and feed it into the app that recognizes what song it is. A block license from Shazam could easily be obtained at a price Google could afford that Shazam couldn't refuse.

The hard part is when you start looking for songs that are only in a portion of the video or looking for copy written video itself. The raw video may be easy to find. The same video being playing through a TV set would be much more difficult. A song being played as credits or in the background of a video would also be hard to detect.

This is why it should be Sony's job.

For all we know HBO has exclusive agreements with the cable companies and contractually cannot do this.

Modern day Muslim extremists who receive the full support and backing of modern day Muslim leadership.

Examples? Can you tell me of a single example of a beheading in the name of Christ by a group sanctioned by the Pope, Billy Graham, or other Christian leader?

No? Then your argument doesn't really hold water does it?

OK, so you've stated that there are bad people that are not Muslims. Are any of these groups Christian based and supported by Christians world wide? Do they receive the approval from Christian leaders like Billy Graham or the Pope?

Didn't think so. Try again. This time provide a list of CHRISTIAN terrorists who have perpetrated acts in the name of Christ that are comparable to 9-11 or even the hanging of homosexuals in Iran.

Until then, I'll gladly accept the truth when you provide it.

I don't think you're making the point you think you are. Spending money you don't have is a thoroughly conservative value. In the USA, sure people claiming to be conservatives talk about responsibly government spending, but when they get in to office, it's been 30 years of "deficits don't matter." Even now the presumed Republican nominee for president is running on a platform of cutting taxes and raising defense spending. How is that not spending money you don't have?

It's a little obvious that you're talking about a specific political party and not a political philosophy. By definition, a fiscal conservative would scrutinize every expense. Just because people are hypocrites doesn't mean the definition changes... this includes progressives who decided that "liberal" basically means the opposite of what it used to WRT the size and scope of government.

If only Google were good at databases and analytics. Think they could hire a company that is good at such things?

Actually, I don't think it's Google's responsibility at all. If Sony thinks they own a claim to a video posted on YouTube, then it's up to Sony to find it and report it to Google.

You are missing the forest for the trees.

Human nature, being what it is, didn't not get obliterated when Jewish religion spread. But the historical record is clear. Jewish religion (primarily Christianity) is what has made this world civilized.