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YouTube To Block Music Videos In the UK

Posted by timothy on from the music-videos-in-the-uk dept.

ChunKing writes "YouTube is to block all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Rights Society. For many of us in the UK this is great news. The two main music licensing agencies in the UK — Phonographic Performance Limited and PRS — have a stranglehold on music use in this country and are stifling creativity."

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  1. New 404 message: by Goffee71 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This Jimmy Page is left intentionally blank

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    If he's the Walrus then can I be a penguin please?
  2. Every cloud.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least i won't be able to be rick rolled now

    1. Re:Every cloud.... by Jurily · · Score: 5, Funny

      At least i won't be able to be rick rolled now

      Wrong. Guess what you get if you try to view a blocked vid.

  3. Re:"Great news?" by lilo_booter · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think the intention is that it will raise public awareness of the issue, and is thus a good thing.

  4. Their own fault by ledow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Record industry (or their representative in some manner) gets stroppy, demands multiples of the usual licensing fee.
    Google tells them to get stuff (made $7bn last year by NOT caving in to people like you)
    Record industry up in arms, tries to gather sympathy
    Everybody else in the UK goes on Youtube to look for the latest Rhianna, finds it's still online, it's just certain "official" and HD versions that you're missing, and carries on as normal (or, at worst, moves to a better video place if they REALLY want high-quality music videos).
    Google carries on making $7bn a year
    Record industry misses out on a share of Google's IMMENSE revenues.
    Artists revolt and put their work on Youtube themselves.

    Seriously, is it just me or is the record industry TRYING to commit commercial suicide?

    1. Re:Their own fault by Malenx · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Man, such an ignorant post.

      Google barely scratches a profit from youtube currently. That $7 billion profit your crying about is from other aspects of the company, not form advertising on youtube.

      Google negotiates after the fact because they are big enough that other companies can't exploit them. It's not murder, it's user generated content. It's not Google throwing up those videos. Google if anything, is inadvertently acting as a wall currently, between users and corporations trying to squash the information paradigm shift.

      Sure they're making billions in return, that's what companies do. If they weren't making it, someone else would be.