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Actually because content owners wished it that way. As to what ContentID does it fingerprints copyrighted content and notifies the copyright owners, they then choose which action to take. It's what keeps youtube in compliance with the law.
First I'd like to point out that this was leaked by the same group who had a member pretend to be a Google employee, but I tend to think this is genuine since the “memo” in question in noncontroversial, despite the editorial best efforts.
Generally, I think the press (I'm being kind to Techcrunch et al here) are being incredibly unfair towards Google, it’s a company that pays employees well and provides them commute and for their trouble their buses get vandalized and their employees disrupted on their way to work, so they hire protection and somehow this author (as many others) are spinning it into a “perk”! why aren't they inquiring if the perpetrators who vandalized the bus are in police custody?
And not to mention that Google is just one company that shuttles employees from san francisco yet it's the only one in the spotlight.
I must say that I find it revolting that you would invoke "competition law" to defend a patent monopoly.
I understand what you're trying to say but you should keep your economic theorizing in check, seeing as you're very libertarian in your attitude towards IV and in the same model going all Keynesian on Google (and via courts no less) your facts are also off, seeing as 'non-practicing entities' or 'patent assertion entities' are hardly "new business models" in fact they've been at this racket for so long they are now called "trolls" for short, or the "Mafia" if you're an originalist.
Actually because content owners wished it that way. As to what ContentID does it fingerprints copyrighted content and notifies the copyright owners, they then choose which action to take. It's what keeps youtube in compliance with the law.