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[frelling_tralk]

Wtf is this???

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090309/tts-uk-youtube-music-13002c7.html


The move to block British users access to artists' music videos and user-created videos, which feature licensed music, will take effect on Monday evening British time.

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[iliana-1.livejournal.com]

UM, WHAT???

So we can't actually watch anything???

[static-pixie.livejournal.com]

What the hell?

[tyffi.livejournal.com]

I hate it when certain sites are blocked for certain countries. You can still access them, but you'll need proxies and stuff, and that's always so annoying.

So much for the free accesible internet. *rolls eyes*

[electricmonk333.livejournal.com]

That sucks. Hopefully things will work out.

[janetmaca.livejournal.com]

LAME.

[red-sunflower.livejournal.com]

Are they going to block youtube entirely? I can't imagine how hard is for those who are going to put the lock in the connections. How are they going to know?

Wow! That sucks. :(

[wee-mango.livejournal.com]

Your mood pic fits perfectly.

*seethes*

[kj-svala.livejournal.com]

Duh, YouTube, THE evil. And this, this sucks, big time.

But, I hate YT anyway, for all that it is, and this is part of the reason why.

I don`t post my Videos at YT, and now I`m reminded why not.

[mbangel10.livejournal.com]

But at the same time with plunging CD sales, the labels hope that YouTube, which benefits from millions of visitors seeking music videos, will serve both as a promotional outlet and a key revenue source.

It's been a long standing rule that companies usually pay for commercials and advertisments to promote their products. YouTube is promoting the RIAA's product for NOTHING! The majority of companies in the world would kill for that kind of promotion but no, not the RIAA. They want YouTube to pay them to promote their own artists. I understand copyright and all that but the RIAA couldn't have dreamed up a better advertising tool than YouTube. The RIAA should be kissing Google's feet and begging to have all their artists videos uploaded there.

Instead what do they do? They try to extort as much money as they possibly can from Google until it's just not viable for Google to continue to pay for promoting the artists that are signed to the record labels. It's completely ludicrous. Only the RIAA could possibly be so greedy as to shoot themselves in their own foot and take even more away from their own bottom line.

The most horrible part of this is that now, music fans can no longer go to YouTube to see that new artist they heard about, and that hurts the fan and the artist. If only the artists could sue the damn RIAA for hurting their ability to promote themselves.

I can't wait for the RIAA to fall....

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That sucks!

[electricmonk333.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's not YouTube's fault, but the PRS' if it is true that the latter is demanding a prohibitively high increase in licensing fees. It is a business after all and YouTube has to do what's best for them. I wonder though whether this move is an attempt to force the PRS to reduce their demand. One can only hope that it is.

[chocca2.livejournal.com]

Arggg! This sucks!!!

[sum1-different.livejournal.com]

Sent you a PM on FF.