Google would never even dream of teaching WB a lesson. They are 100% on WB’s side here.
Eric Schmidt made the calculation - how much do they stand to lose by pissing off a user? Very little. Even if it’s Pewdiepie, and they have, they know he can’t jump ship, and even if he does one of the other legions of vloggers will replace him. How much do they stand to lose by pissing off a big media company who have tons of bored predatory lawyers? Potentially tens of millions and loss of content, and an outlier billion dollar chance with a crazy jury damage award.
So they decided to always do whatever the big media companies ask for as default position. They’re not enemies here, Google is their willing prison bitch and will fall over itself to cover for them, like here.
