Posted on 06/19/2014 3:25:09 PM PDT by mojito
Thousands of music videos are expected to soon disappear off of YouTube because the independent record labels behind those artists are not involved in new deals being cut by the Google-owned streaming site.
YouTube will announce in "a matter of days" that videos on the site featuring recording artists from some independent labels will be blocked, the FT reports. The ban is aimed at forcing the "refusenik" labels into signing licensing agreements with a new service, coming soon from Google.
When the forthcoming service, YouTube Music Pass, is finally launched later this summer, subscribers are expected to be able to not just stream videos from one of the world’s most popular sites, but back up that content to enjoy later, even when an internet connection isn’t available. This feature is currently offered by competing, pay-to-list music services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, but not YouTube. To get as much, however, customers will have to fork over a small fee, and so far independent labels have refused to agree to the licensing agreements involved.
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Vimeo it is then...
YouTube ain’t the only game out there any more.
youtube screwed the content providers doing video game vids a while back suddenly jacking their ad cut 50%. That is where this is headed. Lots of current Youtube people are about to be involuntarily renegotiated.
did Youtube always have so much porn?
Now that net neutrality has been voided, I suspect YouTube will join forces with the major providers to crush their competition by throttling their bandwidth.
It soon just may be the only game out there.
Perfect timing I needed a good laugh...
Google can’t just leave well enough alone.
Oh, well. I’m headed to youtube to download all the Radiohead videos I can. While I can.
I’ll be spending the weekend, recuperating from the
V.A., downloading a boatload of music videos, after
three weeks worth of ‘updates’, to catch up.
Didn’t they try to take down music videos in the YouTube space before(Like several years ago)? I remember it being harder to find music videos at the time. But people kept putting them back up and finding ways around their automatic detection.
I guess they are powerful enough to alienate their viewer base...
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