Google's About to Ruin YouTube by Squeezing Indie Labels

[Jazzy]

It's official: Google is about to ruin YouTube. A company exec told the Financial Times it will start blocking videos from record labels that refuse to sign licensing deals for its forthcoming premium service, YouTube Music Pass. This is the dumbest thing Google could do, and it threatens the very heart of what has always made YouTube so special.

Unfortunately, in an effort to build out the long-rumored YouTube Music Pass, Google's resorting to strong arm tactics that threaten to destroy YouTube. The Financial Times reports that Google has inked deals with the three major record label conglomerates (Sony, Warner, Universal), as will as a number of indies, accounting for 90 percent of the music industry.

The problem is Google's plans for the other 10 percent. The company's head of content Robert Kyncl told the FT that it plans to start blocking videos from indie labels that haven't signed licensing deals "in a matter of days." The FT says that these labels include XL Recordings and Domino Records, whose rosters include Adele, Animal Collective, Arctic Monkeys, and loads of other popular artists. In a statement to Gizmodo, Google confirmed the FT story as well as its intentions to launch a subscription-based service.

Some labels are refusing to sign up because they say they're getting a raw deal from Google. They say that while the major labels have negotiated lucrative contracts, Google is offering indies comparatively bad terms. It's their right to say they don't want to sign up if they don't like the deal Google is offering them. In response, Google is drawing a line in the sand: If your label won't sign on to Google's crappy licensing deal for a new streaming service, you can't host videos on YouTube at all.

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Your thoughts on this?

 

[Icetex's iconIcetex]

Basically Google already ruin YouTube with broken copyright ID claim system
Then ruin the comment system with google+ and then changed channel outlook/layout
google basically wants Youtube to burn

 

[~KAGE-008]

Basically Google already ruin YouTube with broken copyright ID claim system
Then ruin the comment system with google+ and then changed channel outlook/layout
google basically wants Youtube to burn

And the sad thing is, that this copyright crap has been going on since 2009. I remember when an user I followed back in 2010 got his account suspended due to the aforementioned thing. He had to wait 9 damn months to get that account back, since it was unfair.

 

[DrLeftover]

And I thought that the ads that you couldn't skip over had already ruined it.

 

[Sinon]

It sort of makes sense. You want people to listen to your music, right? You want thousands, millions, maybe even billions of views of your new hottest track?

How much money does that cost to host? You want to gain publicity from being on one of the world's largest media sites, you've gotta pay for it. It's a bit of a dick move, but Google is a business, and a business that doesn't make money is a shitty business.

 

[~KAGE-008]

It's a bit of a dick move, but Google is a business, and a business that doesn't make money is a shitty business.

That justifies the fact they use an automated system to detect infringing videos (i.e., with any music track or other copyrighted media), and suspend users at pure random. Most people are either planning on moving to other video sites or not doing videos anymore due to their unnecessary "changes" they've been doing since late 2008 (starting from the 2.0/Super Seekrit channel design).

 

[Icetex's iconIcetex]

I bet unitimate plan Google Make own video service after driving everyone away from Youtube
then surprise month later come up with Googletube or Googlevideos
basically replacing Youtube
after that Youtube Long and Forrgotten

 

[~KAGE-008]

I bet unitimate plan Google Make own video service after driving everyone away from Youtube
then surprise month later come up with Googletube or Googlevideos
basically replacing Youtube
after that Youtube Long and Forrgotten

Google Video existed until 2011, when they decided to merge it with YT but disappearing the former.

 

[Icetex's iconIcetex]

I bet unitimate plan Google Make own video service after driving everyone away from Youtube
then surprise month later come up with Googletube or Googlevideos
basically replacing Youtube
after that Youtube Long and Forrgotten

Google Video existed until 2011, when they decided to merge it with YT but disappearing the former.

Oh yeahhh I forgot did EXIST at one point
completely forgot...
Seem now they want bring it back unless got something else in mind

 

[~KAGE-008]

Oh yeahhh I forgot did EXIST at one point
completely forgot...
Seem now they want bring it back unless got something else in mind

They won't. YT already has an incredibly large userbase but the site is being ruined and it'll be worse in the future.

Instead of implementing the G+ thing, they should've improved the playback framerate from 30 to 60, fixed the search bugs which are still there and brought us the ability to switch channel designs. I liked the 2.0 channel design though

 

[Evil Eye]

And I thought that the ads that you couldn't skip over had already ruined it.

Nah, AdBlock takes care of those.