How sad... Music industry removes their artist's videos

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

How pathetic is it when the music industry removes their client's officially uploaded videos from YouTube?

I was looking up some information on DragonForce, and I was planning on watching a few of their music videos. Doesn't look like that can happen now, since Warner felt it necessary to remove their client's videos from YouTube, the very ones featured on DragonForce's YouTube channel as well as embedded in their official website. Just thought it's yet another nail in the coffin for the music industry's deathgrip on their old technology and practices..

Here's the picture on Digg if you'd like to digg it.
http://digg.com/music/Way_to_go_Warner_ ... content_from_YouTube

Adbot · **Posted:** March 11th, 2009, 5:33 am

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** March 11th, 2009, 5:55 am

How the stupid industry works, the artist doesn't own the music the label does. I'll just keep pirating away, it's idiotic to ban it on youtube for every video they remove 2 more get put up in place anyway.

Brad · **Posted:** March 11th, 2009, 6:18 am

Kinda semi-related. You can't watch some music videos on youtube from the UK that were uploaded by record companies anymore.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

Brad wrote:

Kinda semi-related. You can't watch some music videos on youtube from the UK that were uploaded by record companies anymore.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm

Kind of pathetic. I don't understand why they don't want free advertising. By watching music videos in an unrestricted way, people can discover new music and artists that would have remained hidden to them. I don't think YouTube is too out of it's right to want to gain a profit from the arrangement, they are after all paying for the bandwidth as well as the novelty of being able to watch it on YouTube.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

I just wish that these greedy music companies didn't care and just left the videos online. Sometimes I just want to look up and listen to a song once in a while. But when they remove the video, it gets hard to fine. I hope these companies change their minds someday and leave videos on there for everyone to see and listen to. [-o<

imac · **Posted:** March 11th, 2009, 12:26 pm

removing videos made by fans because they don't have copyright is absurd. This was not the point of Youtube. I know a guy that made music videos that took him forever to do and they got taken down for the same reason.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 11th, 2009, 12:26 pm

Shreder · **Posted:** March 11th, 2009, 2:23 pm

It's free advertisement.
I see no gain from deleting them.
nigahiga, #2 most subscribed, had a video with millions of views and was deleted because of the song.
It's very stupidddd.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Actually, there is one exception I have in mind... :shock:

If they remove Girlfriend by Avril Lavign from youtube, that would be alright. I don't like that song and it shouldn't be included as one of the top videos. [-X

power crazy · **Posted:** March 11th, 2009, 5:55 pm

duke_juker wrote:

Actually, there is one exception I have in mind... :shock:

If they remove Girlfriend by Avril Lavign from youtube, that would be alright. I don't like that song and it shouldn't be included as one of the top videos. [-X

LOL yeah i can't believe that got so many views.
But it is sad when they have the vid on their official website and the music company takes it down... like wtf...

Al3X · **Posted:** March 14th, 2009, 7:18 pm

Really pathetic.

Also affects people who add background music to their videos, it just gets muted and you have to use "audio replacement", which has crap music, or allow your video to be taken down.

Fanaticism · **Posted:** March 14th, 2009, 8:07 pm

It's your fault for supporting a band that sucks...

And when it comes down to it... There's a magical item out there called money... That's what the music industry wants... People just watching videos online does not make them money lol...