Warner Music Pulls Videos Off YouTube

iammani writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "Warner Music Group ordered YouTube on Saturday to remove all music videos by its artists from the popular online video-sharing site after contract negotiations broke down. ... The talks fell apart early on Saturday because Warner wants a bigger share of the huge revenue potential of YouTube's massive visitor traffic. There were no reports on what Warner was seeking. 'We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide,' Warner said in a statement." Warner's deal with YouTube to make those videos available came just prior to YouTube's acquisition by Google.

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[Waffle Iron]

The labels don't mind paying MTV to play their videos

It looks like the labels are doubly incompetent: MTV takes their money, but then it doesn't bother to play any music videos at all.

I record all my music off Youtube

[Joce640k]

I just hold a microphone up to the speakers and record the song using Windows Sound Recorder.

It's very easy to do and the sound quality is perfectly acceptable because I only listen on the bus.