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152:. To avoid being easily found by copyrights owners on YouTube, uploaders of copyrighted content would usually alter the name of the content ("Friends" would become "Riendsf"). Since this would also make it difficult for users to find those videos, websites like Peekvid.com acted as double-blind key that made illegal content posted on YouTube easily discoverable.
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