Comments on: Is YouTube Killing Music Piracy?

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:49:00 +0000

ha.. be happy you don’t live in germany like me..

afterdawn . com/news/article.cfm/2009/04/02/youtube_blocks_music_videos_in_germany

80% of all content with any form of commercial music in it is blocked.
just to get a slight idea of the scale: if it’s VEVO, it’s blocked. ALL of it.

srsly? fuck that

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:18:00 +0000

The actual text in the transcript is:

Q. do you know whether Google pays something like half penny when someone clicks on, let’s say, a video or music from one of your artists?

A. That sounds reasonable.

If they get half a penny per stream, they’re laughing… I suspect it’s not actually that much. If it is, it’s about 5000x better than what most indies are getting.

By: Pugz

Pugz — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:16:00 +0000

“still….you can’t polish a turd…..”

Oh? You can’t? That’s what I thought Simon Cowell did for a living.

By: Kathsy49

Kathsy49 — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:05:00 +0000

downloading nowadays can be considered as selling. it is one way to reach the listeners, the difference is technology plays an important part with it. i use torrsapps toolbar for my downloading needs.

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By: Xpectre

Xpectre — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:33:00 +0000

I am amazed as well by the total lack of interest from the artists, who continue to allow the labels to take most of the revenues,and maybe that’s the reall issue – I mean, you are already famous and you’ll never be poor again (as billions of people know your tracks), but you don’t care that your voice cannot be heard in other countries besides Western ones – that says alot about how much artist care about us.
I was pleasantly suprised by Radiohead’s gesture(in 2007, as I recall) to allow everybody to download for free their newest album (if you wanted to pay, you could pay as much as you wanted).They said that the album they “sold” in this manner was more profitable for them than any other album they have previously released through a large label (as worldwide fans pomped large amounts of cash in their pockets) .Too bad that they were amongst the few (if not the only ones) to do that.As for the labels, I think (and I hope I’m not wrong) their winning (and profits) are going to come to a painful end if they don’t change their perspective (as piracy cannot be disappear).now, I’ll go back to torrents surfing and YT watching (“thievery”, as the labels hotshots would say).

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:11:00 +0000

It is hilarious that labels expect us to believe this nonsense (” Oh my God, those lil’ thieves on the internet, they’re stealing artists’ payment and violating our right to,well, copyright”).I am Romanian and I often have to clear my Favourites on YT of the tracks that have been banned in my country, and it’s annoyng, especially that many artists became notorious thanks to YT.There is a resemblance between music labels and movie labels’ complaints about piracy, but take a look at the huge profits made in the last years in the film industry,despite the piracy (most of the top-selling movies are quite recent, and profits of billions have been made in cinemas…but they never seize to complain). I mean, how cheap can you be?

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