Hmm... I think the PRS can get away with killing Pandora and the like in the UK. However, in the face of something a ubiquitous as Youtube and as powerful as Google they will fold like a cheap suit.
hmmmm... Dammit, now where will we get all our music videos from?! So thats another round of royalties lost to musicians because of stupid prices!
They close one door, and we just go back to the good old torrents. Its a battle they cant win, The general public will always find a way. Sooner or later they will be and thinking of new and fun ways to stop us getting music,films etc
As long as we think of ways to get things for free, they will think of new ways to force us to pay for them. Music and films don't grow on trees, you know?
Interesting the amount of ignorant bias from the Google's fanboys. The PRS exists to collect money on behalf of performers. These performers could be the session musicians who are actually playing on that boy band album; these guys don't get their major income from gigs and t-shirts. They're the performers who made up the orchestra on that classical album, the little guys who rely on the trickle of income from PRS. Those nice net radio people have had a nice little business model - income from advertising, no costs other than wages and bandwidth. I'm afraid it's not sustainable. The raw material isn't free. Er, no, the "general public" tend to pay, it's a minority (and dare I say at the younger end) who take. When the majority take the system will collapse - no decent artist or publishing business can afford to work for nothing.
i always thought that music videos were meant to be a more of a promotional tool to sell albums, not a revenue stream on their own. this move seems to me like a company asking youtube to take their commercial down because they don't want people watching it without paying.
Thats exactly what music video's are for, I'm on a media production course at the moment and everything were taught about music video's is that they are promotional tool's. Once people have seen the video and like the song, they go and buy it (in theory anyway). Obviously that doesn't always happen but really who visit's youtube to listen to their favourite songs? The qualities mostly sh*t, as well as their player! In my opinion, another example of the music industry shooting itself in the foot.
You could have fooled me with all the mass produced crap they spew out these days, seriously, we’re not talking Beatles here, remember the times when artists actually did the singing, wrote their own lyrics and played an instrument? I pay for that, in fact; I still do. Guess your right, after all; having "14" year olds singing about the “early” years whilst about to release their biography kind of proves your point...hmm, or were you perhaps referring to the shitty sound quality on YouTube? Peace
Or, in other words, people are realizing that you can't hear the difference anyway unless you invest thousands in audio equipment.
