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YouTube to Offer Every Music Video Ever Created?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the allright-finally-a-point-to-all-this dept.

Klaidas writes "BBC reports that YouTube is aiming to have every music video ever created within 18 months and offer them free of charge to its users
"Right now we're trying to very quickly determine how and what the model is to distribute this content and we're very aggressive in assisting the labels in trying to get the content on to YouTube," said Mr Chen."

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  1. Free? RIAA will never allow it by davidwr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not gonna happen.

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  2. But what will MTV do? by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh wait, nevermind, they don't play videos anymore. At least the younger generation will have some opportunity to imagine what MTV was like when it was good (MHO).

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    1. Re:But what will MTV do? by bhsurfer · · Score: 4, Insightful
      That's exactly what I was thinking: is this "progress" that we're using the internet to get back to where cable television was 25 years ago?

      Oh well, at least we'll get to see some of that cool old David Bowie video again... :)

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  3. Re:Free? RIAA will never allow it by Enoxice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No publicity is bad publicity. If RIAA shoots them down, they'll still have gotten all of the publicity from their bold claims.

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  4. Bad bargaining position by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should use the Tom Sawyer method. People value what they have to pay for far more than what they can get for free. As soon as you charge them for the generous service of hosting their music videos, it suddenly becomes something they'll want a lot more. Then they'll start fighting for the priviledge of paying you. Otherwise, they'll just want money.

  5. I can't find my old posts by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But for a long time I said that some website or group of websites that would be hosting every old television show and movie ever created. Some people said On Demand would do this, but I'm pretty sure the Internet is going to beat it out.

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  6. How's this for an idea? by pandrijeczko · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Music labels stop making videos and focus on the *quality* content of the audio material.

    With the money they save in not paying "moistened bints" to prance around half-naked in front of a camera (or around the singer/group) performing the actual song, they can discount the cost of the CD (which subsidises the making of the videos in the first place) and force the artiste to sell CDs based on quality of musical content, not on how well the video induces wet dreams in the male teenage audience...

    Don't get me wrong - I find the female form as interesting as much as every other red-blooded heterosexual monogamous male but if I want visual stimulation, then I'll put on the TV or a DVD, thanks very much.

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  7. Re:Free? RIAA will never allow it by tobiasly · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Even when downloaded, the file is in the uncommon .FLV format, which will need to be re-encoded to be played on any portable media player.

    How long do you think it will be before that changes? It wasn't too long ago that there was no such thing as a portable native .mp3 player. If the format becomes popular, the hardware will support it. (Of course I still doubt that would hurt album sales, since the audio quality on YouTube is horrible.)