I share your frustration. I come across people posting other people's Youtube vids and feel like they are trying to make money off of other people's hard work.

HOWEVER, if Steemit is supposed to be a social media platform.... Is it any different than posting a video you found on Youtube on your Facebook account? Surely, one would be allowed to make an empty post with an interesting youtube video and share that with their friends without having to 'steal' it.

Of course on Steemit it is much more clear that they are doing this for financial gain. But still, it's hard to really pinpoint ethically what the best route would be to handle this. One one way one could say they are stealing, another way would be to say they are spreading the news.

I do agree though, this platform does not benefit from empty copie/pastes and reposts, though. I'd rather see some kind of censorship where only owners of videos can post them as content.