As most people know, YouTube has been removing videos that use copyrighted songs as background music. Or they mute the soundtrack. Warner Music Group is the most notorious company for doing this.
But my question is, will this tactic backfire? In case the record companies have not been reading the news, we are in a SEVERE economic recession. Some say we’re on the verge of a DEPRESSION. There is already an enormous public backlash building against Warner Music Group. It seems to me that during bad economic times, the very last thing any industry wants to do is make the public angry. I know of a lot of people who actually did buy CD’s, but have stopped because a lot of their friends have had their videos censored on YouTube by WMG. Very few people are buying music as it is, because of the bad economy. No one has any money, and a lot of people are afraid of losing their jobs. But will this tactic that WMG is pulling on YouTube further alienate potential customers?
Do you think this tactic will backfire? Will the RIAA and WMG be next ones going to Congress and begging for a bailout?
Any thoughts?
hey, Law and Order…in some places in the US, unemployment has already hit Depression-era levels. In Detroit, unemployment is about 22 percent. (During the Great Depression, unemployment reached 25 percent. Sounds like Detroit is already there!) Where I live in California, unemployment is nearly 12 percent. Stores are closing left and right. I know several people who have been laid off. Some of my friends had to drop out of school because they don’t have money and the state has cut financial assitance for students. California is nearly bankrupt, and so are several other states. Sure doesn’t sound ‘alarmist’ to me.
And meanwhile, the record companies are still trying to sue people and censor videos on YouTube.
The music industry has already shot itself in the foot with all that suing of people who shared music online. That has to be the dumbest bit of PR I have ever seen in my life.
Greed has clouded the music industry’s judgement severely. I seriously doubt if they will recover. Even new artists are not using the industry to release music.
History has proven over and over that a restrictive response is not nearly as effective as a positive response. So this youtube censoring will simply cause users to find other venues to do the same thing that youtube is censoring. And of course if the server is in a country with different copyright laws, there will be nothing the music industry can do about it.
But it would not surprise me to find the entertainment industry begging for a bailout. And knowing the ignorance of the USA in matters such as this, they might get away with it. Americans are not dumb, but they are easily misled.
Anything the music industry does in regards to the internet seems to backfire.
It’s a bit premature, not to mention alarmist to say the US is on the verge of a depression.
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The music industry has already shot itself in the foot with all that suing of people who shared music online. That has to be the dumbest bit of PR I have ever seen in my life.
Greed has clouded the music industry’s judgement severely. I seriously doubt if they will recover. Even new artists are not using the industry to release music.
History has proven over and over that a restrictive response is not nearly as effective as a positive response. So this youtube censoring will simply cause users to find other venues to do the same thing that youtube is censoring. And of course if the server is in a country with different copyright laws, there will be nothing the music industry can do about it.
But it would not surprise me to find the entertainment industry begging for a bailout. And knowing the ignorance of the USA in matters such as this, they might get away with it. Americans are not dumb, but they are easily misled.
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