From the Financial Times


YouTube to block indie labels as it launches paid music service
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ea6728e2 … abdc0.html

"YouTube is about to begin a mass cull of music videos by artists including Adele and the Arctic Monkeys, after a number of independent record labels refused to sign up to the licensing terms for its new subscription service."

"Record labels representing 95 per cent of the music industry have signed up to the new terms, Mr Kyncl said. The remainder, which are asking European regulators to examine whether Google is abusing a dominant market position, will be blocked from the platform."


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( There's always  Vimeo )

Link doesnt work, says I need to pay to view.. ?

There's loads of ripped videos by those artists floating around on YT.. imagine the lawsuits, sounds like they're about to sign those bands' meal ticket

Vimeo doesn't allow commercial videos on their channel

There is a lot of contradictory, misleading, or possibly just confusing information going around about this.

Here's a really good summary of what has actually been said by whom, what is unsubstantiated rumor, and what will happen next:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 … ic-service

Oh, no! Now they'll only have vimeo, vevo, dailymotion, veoh, metacafe, sqweasal, zippcast... and that's from a 2-second google. I'm sure there are more.

They're complaining about losing free internet hosting, publicity (everything on youtube links to many other "similar" videos), site maintenance overhead... so the YouTube free ride is over. They'll either change their minds, or someone else will pick up the indie slack.

Holy fucking entitlement issues. Nothing is free forever. These people are not "owed" anything. Other sites will pick up the slack, and there will be a new indie "youtube" variant.

It's not entitlement; it's negotiation.

YouTube made an offer to WIN.  WIN didn't like the offer, in part because it doesn't appear to be as good an offer as the major record companies received.  YouTube has threatened to remove or block content from WIN if they don't agree to the offer.  WIN wants to gain public support from YouTube's customers, who consume WIN's content.