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** Simple question of popularity and probability. Between the U.S., Britain, and English being the lingua franca of the modern world, the majority of internet users (and, by extension, [[YouTube]] users) are English speakers. English subs therefore get a lot more popular than Spanish or German subs, and they are more likely to get themselves noticed by the copyright holders who will then send a letter to [[YouTube]] asking them to take them down.
* Why are there multiple copies of a popular video when the original is still intact? I can understand if the video was flagged, but if it's still available? Really?
** Maybe they saw a copy from another site and uploaded it to [[YouTube]] without knowing the popular video was already there. Then there are the people who know, but do it any way so they will get views. A video with a lot of views brings status, even if it is in their own heads... it's kind of hard to explain. In gift [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy:Gift economy|economies,]] like [[YouTube]] (where people go through the effort of uploading videos for others to see and pretty much no gain to them at all), there are ways, such as view counts or [http://digg.com diggs] (if you go to that site) to measure your worth in some way. They are a sort of scavenger, if you will, getting some free reputation by reposting something that something that is already popular. It's part ego, part perception of self-worth, part something hard to define. Oh, and there is also redundancy, in case the original video gets taken down. That's good, too.
* What the heck is with the orange box things in the comments?
** New tags for finding videos.
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