According to the RIAA, Youtube and Google Video are the newest way to share music illegally. The RIAA's served Youtube several cease-and-desist letters to remove content that users have uploaded.

Currently, the labels are policing Youtube and other sites on their own. Their efforts in removing the content has proved to have mixed effects. While many video's are removed quickly upon request, the video's are often resubmitted within days. One possible solution to the crisis the RIAA is facing is for Youtube and others to implement content-filtering in order to find and prevent video's that infringe upon copyright from being uploaded to the site. Youtube's competitors, including Google Video, who is partnered with Sony BMG to sell video's, iFilm, which is owned by MTV, and Myspace, which displays promotional and ad-supported music video's for labels. However, all of these sites allow users to submit their own video's and have seen an increase in unauthorized video's or video's that break copyright uploaded and viewed on their networks.