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ELI5: How do live YouTube streams of TV shows get away with it?

I've spent all day binge watching live YouTube streams of South Park, Family Guy and American Dad on my TV and it's been great

But I've been wondering how these streams survive considering that when full episodes of TV shows are uploaded to YouTube they are always quickly removed due to copyright.
gpt
Because streams cannot be easily automatically processed by Youtube's ContentID system. Someone would have to report the stream to the copyright holder, then they would have to contact Youtube to shut down the stream.