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Viral Music Videos A Problem For RIAA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-isn't-a-problem-for-them dept.

prostoalex writes "A few years ago music videos were considered promotional, a tease to get the viewer to buy the whole album. However, now that a commercial market for music videos is springing up, the music industry is not quite happy with YouTube, iFilm, Google Video and other video sharing sites distributing the music videos of famous artists. Billboard magazine says: 'The RIAA estimates that sales of music videos topped $3.7 million in three months, after being introduced in October. Meanwhile, the major labels also are sharing in the profits of ad-supported video-on-demand offerings from AOL, Yahoo, Music Choice and others. That is revenue the music industry is keenly interested in protecting. Hopes are that YouTube and others will ink similar deals with the industry in the long run.'"

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  1. Erm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope YouTube isn't hosted in sweden.

  2. Viral... by brenddie · · Score: 5, Funny

    For a moment I though this was about some kind of "sony-rootkit" fiasco from the MPAA...

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  3. Re:Pay?? For a music video?? by NosTROLLdamus · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why bother paying the rapist to rape you some more when you can just rape yourself, or masterbate if your not into self-rape, same thing, right?

    What the fuck does this even mean? HAVE YOU STOPPED FAILING ENGLISH YET?

  4. What's next? Pay-per-view advertising? by AmazingRuss · · Score: 4, Funny

    These people are off the deep end. Maybe they should cut to the chase and get laws passed that force us to buy their crap at gunpoint.

    "Time for your new Brittany CD, citizen!"

  5. Excellent idea! by macemoneta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Music videos are advertisements - commercials, and charging for them is the best idea I have heard in decades! Perhaps the idea will catch on, and all advertisements will be withheld from us unless we pay. Poor us, life will be so boring just watching our programs without the joy commercial interruptions bring.

    The MPAA could learn a lot from this! That's right, keep those movie trailers under lock and key! They usually show all the interesting parts of the movie, and they are condensed into just a few minutes! Who would pay to see a bloated movie when the Cliff Notes version is available?!? They should be charging more for the trailers than the movies. Pull them from the theaters and TV! That way, people will want to see the movies even more.

    Oh, and someone check the water coolers at the RIAA. I suspect that some joker has been dropping LSD in with the bottle deliveries.

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  6. Re:Viral sites are on the rise for this very reaso by Bluesman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't have anything to say, but I just wanted to applaud you for being the first person in the history of Slashdot to spell "lose" correctly. Bravo, sir.

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