various unauthorized copies of the track are played hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube and elsewhere.
Google is too big to be sued plus the music and movie companies use then to promote the music. That bar is just small enough to throw a brick thru their window and demand the extortion money.
Google actually pays royalties for most of the songs people post on youtube. There is software that recognizes the tunes automatically, as you can notice even songs posted “illegally” will have the name of the songs and the link to buy it on Amazon below the video.
They just don’t charge the royalties back to the users, instead they make up for it with ad revenue.