Latest Breaking News

bananas

(27,509 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:43 PM Jun 2014

YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service [View all]

Source: Guardian

Independent artists could disappear from YouTube "in a matter of days" after the Google video service confirmed it was dropping content from independent labels that have not signed up for its upcoming subscription music service.

YouTube is about to begin testing the new service – which will charge people to watch and listen to music without ads, and download songs to their mobile devices – within the next few days, initially within Google.

The company's head of content and business operations, Robert Kyncl, told the Financial Times that the service – previously rumoured to be called YouTube Music Pass – will launch more widely later in the year.

His confirmation that YouTube will block videos from labels that do not sign licensing deals for the new premium tier will be hugely controversial among indie labels, with trade body WIN already filing a complaint to the European Commission about its negotiating strategy.

<snip>

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/17/youtube-indie-labels-music-subscription

31 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service [View all] bananas Jun 2014 OP

Google is nobody's friend. nt onehandle Jun 2014 #1

The more commercial they become Trajan Jun 2014 #2

Same for Comrade Eddie here. Ed Suspicious Jun 2014 #3

Me too. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #30

"catastrophic error of judgement", "bullying...from YouTube employees" bananas Jun 2014 #4

I see a new music website in our future... DesertDiamond Jun 2014 #5

That is no joke either. If you are a web developer looking for an overnight hit GoneFishin Jun 2014 #7

... Until net non-neutrality kills your delivery. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2014 #17

Which is exactly what they want. They have theirs, now they are trying to pull up the ladder behind GoneFishin Jun 2014 #24

The internet was so much better before all of these companies 'merged' blackspade Jun 2014 #6

Imagine that. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #31

They've already flooded the site with ads and skew search results to commercial vids. freshwest Jun 2014 #8

Get Ad Block Plus and never look at another ad Rochester Jun 2014 #15

+1000 DeSwiss Jun 2014 #18

I have adblock. Doesn't stop embedded ads in videos or eliminate youtube's ad driven order of search freshwest Jun 2014 #27

Why can't people just give them the middle finger and quit them altogether? Young addiction. YOHABLO Jun 2014 #9

alternatives? ejpoeta Jun 2014 #21

For music, and music only? MY SPACE. People forget it still is out there...! nt MADem Jun 2014 #29

Time to move beyond YouTube, yes? blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #10

Time for YouTube to become another Myspace InfoWingerWatch Jun 2014 #11

^^This!^^ BrotherIvan Jun 2014 #13

Funnily enough, indie music is the one area where Myspace still has a presence nxylas Jun 2014 #16

YOu can't post an amateur video any more? McCamy Taylor Jun 2014 #12

Doesn't say that. dipsydoodle Jun 2014 #19

Google is EVIL johnlucas Jun 2014 #14

No more CandyRat Records? IDemo Jun 2014 #20

Welcome to Google, your new masters. Nitram Jun 2014 #22

Hang on dkhbrit Jun 2014 #23

What are you talking about? alp227 Jun 2014 #25

Now the Guardian is acknowledging this story was poorly written. alp227 Jun 2014 #26

No - the rest of that article confirms what's in the OP. bananas Jun 2014 #28