28Secondly, the Court has found that the activity of the operator of a video-sharing platform or a file-hosting and -sharing platform falls within the scope of Article 14(1) of Directive 2000/31, provided that that operator does not play an active role of such a kind as to give it knowledge of or control over the content uploaded to its platform. In addition, for such an operator to be excluded, under Article 14(1)(a) of that directive, from the exemption from liability provided for in Article 14(1), it must have knowledge of or awareness of specific illegal acts committed by its users relating to protected content that was uploaded to its platform (judgment of 22 June 2021, YouTube and Cyando, C‑682/18 and C‑683/18, EU:C:2021:503, paragraphs 117 and 118).
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