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YouTube to Offer Every Music Video Ever Created?
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on Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:20 AM
from the allright-finally-a-point-to-all-this dept.
from the allright-finally-a-point-to-all-this dept.
Klaidas writes "BBC reports that YouTube is aiming to have every music video ever created within 18 months and offer them free of charge to its users
"Right now we're trying to very quickly determine how and what the model is to distribute this content and we're very aggressive in assisting the labels in trying to get the content on to YouTube," said Mr Chen."
"Right now we're trying to very quickly determine how and what the model is to distribute this content and we're very aggressive in assisting the labels in trying to get the content on to YouTube," said Mr Chen."
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Free? RIAA will never allow it (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/~davidwr/journal/ | Last Journal: Friday November 09, @09:19PM)
Re:RIAA will love it (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.outpimp.com/?x=57020 | Last Journal: Wednesday September 12, @09:15PM)
I guess we'll know the end is near, when YouTube announces it will carry all of "The Real Life" episodes....
Re:Free? RIAA will never allow it (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://seenonslash.com/ | Last Journal: Friday May 11 2007, @04:02PM)
Re:Free? RIAA will never allow it (Score:5, Informative)
As a former employee of MTV, I can say unequivocably that nobody at MTV gets paid to show this video over that video. But there is a lot of pressure to, say, "show this new artist video or we won't give you an exclusive interview with Madonna/Ludacris/Green Day." There is a lot of bartering more than outright payola. Influence for influence.
And, yes, MTV will pay any artist $1 for the right to use their music in the background of their shows in perpetuity forever and ever et cetera et cetera. A lot of bands take that deal; bigger names than I would have thought, especially in the metal/indie world. It's not really selling out, but it's definitely a validation of the system.
Re:Free? RIAA will never allow it (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Free? RIAA will never allow it (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.tobiasly.com/)
How long do you think it will be before that changes? It wasn't too long ago that there was no such thing as a portable native .mp3 player. If the format becomes popular, the hardware will support it. (Of course I still doubt that would hurt album sales, since the audio quality on YouTube is horrible.)
But what will MTV do? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.devinmoore.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday May 24, @06:16AM)
Re:But what will MTV do? (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh well, at least we'll get to see some of that cool old David Bowie video again... :)
A-ha "Take On Me" (Score:4, Interesting)
It's amazing that back in the MTV days artists were ACTUALLY artists and the talent shows through and through. ever notice how many 80s stations there are on the radio today? IMHO the 80's was the last attempt at real music with real artists..ya know people that write and produce their own stuff? Sadly its all about the money now, just like everything else. Show some skin, sing someone elses lyrics and you are good to go..thats what we have today.
Maybe thats one reason you dont see music videos anymore and one reason music sales started slumpping way before Napster came along..b/c the music for the most part it utter crap. Napster just made folks at the RIAA realize just how bad the music industry had become and continues to be.
Do we really need all of them? (Score:1, Funny)
(http://cjo20.net/)
Re:Do we really need all of them? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://robvincent.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 09, @01:55PM)
Re:Do we really need all of them? (Score:5, Funny)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santanaya
Bad bargaining position (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Friday June 11 2004, @11:15AM)
Re:Bad bargaining position (Score:5, Funny)
(http://agh2o.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 19 2006, @02:56PM)
I love that video!
Lose more money! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://clearpores.skincaremall.info/)
Already there? (Score:1)
(http://amsa.info/)
Re:Already there? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://robvincent.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 09, @01:55PM)
All the good ones (Score:5, Funny)
It would be nice if... (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Saturday February 19 2005, @08:28AM)
-uso.
Do you get to choose the 18 months? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday October 02 2006, @08:42AM)
Do you get to choose which 18 month period you will select from? I'm hoping for something like Jul 2003 - Dec 2004: no P(uff) D(a/i)iddy videos to worry about, and I might pick up a cool Peter Gabriel video or two.
Re:Do you get to choose the 18 months? (Score:5, Funny)
This is great!!! (Score:1)
2) People will realise that RIAA != "ALL MUSIC" and learn to ignore those attention whores.
3) JPOP will rule the world!!!! Aibon, anyone???
We don't need to stinking hats. (Score:5, Funny)
It should work great (Score:4, Interesting)
It also shouldn't be too much of a problem to get past the RIAA. Look at Yahoos music videos. As long as there isn't a way for people to download them and keep them for personal use, I don't see that there would be a problem (but what do I know, if there is a way to make money the RIAA will be all over it). I think that they could have a really good thing starting here.
Re:It should work great (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.ceyah.org/~jandrese/ | Last Journal: Thursday September 13, @11:11AM)
I can't find my old posts (Score:4, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Sunday November 06 2005, @10:30PM)
I predict $20 a month charge (Score:2, Insightful)
Interesting (Score:5, Interesting)
Why is it, Youtube has videos from many very popular and very lawsuit-happy bands (such as Kiss), but only *some* of their videos, and *not* always just the ones that are the arguably less copyright-infringing ones? In other words, often many of the videos that weren't intentionly taken down for legal reasons are the ones that are seemingly most illegal, ala the "legitimate MTV-style" videos.
It smells of payola and soforth. But who knows.
Priorities (Score:2, Insightful)
big whoop (Score:1)
First YouTube Song... (Score:5, Funny)
...divinating... (Score:1, Funny)
Prediction: Metallica will sue.
censored ?? (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://www.getocities.com/rbtswan)
100 Awesome Music Videos Lives! (Score:5, Informative)
Labels should pay YouTube for this (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.certainkey.com/)
It's a loss leader. I can't remember how many albums I bought because the video introduced me to the music. The audio quality would be poor enough to encourage people to buy the real thing.
Well... (Score:2)
Splitting streams is rather easy...
MTV has already done it... quietly... (Score:4, Informative)
It's pretty good. Thousands of videos. Quality is as good as what you usually find on YouTube.
Not sure why nobody knows about this. I mean, at 37, I'm now outside MTV's target demographic (but I was 14 when I GOT MY MTV in 1983, the weekend that the Thriller video was released in it's 14-minute glory.)
But anyway, since MY generation was the one that actually watched videos on MTV for about 6 hours a day instead of listening to the radio, I'd think they'd find a way to market this to the 30-45 year age groups. *shrug*
Re:MTV has already done it... quietly... (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.badstep.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday December 30 2003, @06:04AM)
"Firefox users need to install the following ActiveX compatibility plug-in:"
Re:MTV has already done it... quietly... (Score:5, Informative)
From MTV Overdrive :
"Detecting OS...
In order to offer a broad selection of full-length music videos on-demand and free of charge, MTV Overdrive uses Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect videos from unauthorized re-distribution.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's Windows Media Player Plug-in for Unix does not support Windows DRM. If DRM support becomes available, MTV will develop a version of MTV Overdrive that works for your operating system."
Now at RIAA headquaters (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Wednesday February 02 2005, @11:26PM)
RIAA calculation:
(every music video ever made) x (USD 150.000) = Endless party
RIAA vs. YouTube settlement:
1) pay laywers, music industrie, 1.37 quadrizappeldubbel billion dollars.
2) shutdown website
Total BS (Score:1)
Record labels are among the greediest, most money-hungry companies on the planet. They aren't going to just hand over the content for YouTube to distribute for free. They also aren't likely to hand over the content for YouTube to distribute cheaply.
Sorry, but Steve Chen is either dreaming, smoking crack, or knowingly talking out of his butt.
How's this for an idea? (Score:5, Insightful)
With the money they save in not paying "moistened bints" to prance around half-naked in front of a camera (or around the singer/group) performing the actual song, they can discount the cost of the CD (which subsidises the making of the videos in the first place) and force the artiste to sell CDs based on quality of musical content, not on how well the video induces wet dreams in the male teenage audience...
Don't get me wrong - I find the female form as interesting as much as every other red-blooded heterosexual monogamous male but if I want visual stimulation, then I'll put on the TV or a DVD, thanks very much.
Not likely (Score:3, Funny)
Meanwhile (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.dmackinnon.com/)
Not the Full Video? (Score:1)
Every music video? (Score:1)
Even this? (Score:1)
Oh wait..
Should be easy... but... (Score:2)
Someone belatedly figured we'd pay for compilations and started going retail.
YouTube will argue for 80s pricing and RIAA will argue for 2000s pricing.
As great as videos were in their heyday (the 80s) today's kids will think they're about as exciting as watching bank surveillance videos compared to the bombast that's on now.
The only problem is (Score:1)
(http://www.up2ng.com/?slash)
Of course they will start YouTube2.com and
I want my YouTube.com
Snoogans
I can hear them now... (Score:1)
With all the bandwidth they burn through... (Score:2)
(http://fak3r.com/)
Every video? Including Broken by NIN? (Score:2)
(http://cliveholloway.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday February 28 2004, @05:54PM)
Don't they already have every video every made? (Score:2)
(http://conceptjunkie.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Monday August 25 2003, @10:22PM)
OK. That's nice.
Sounds Good (Score:1)
(http://bizzle.slightlybetterthanyou.com/)
I'd pay (Score:2)
Better Not (Score:1)
(http://www.smallvue.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday December 28 2005, @03:18PM)
English language only? (Score:2)
If model is every music video.... (Score:2)
I'd like it if I could purchase the albums with the videos, both in high-quality, at the same time for slighltly more than a regular album with no copy protection. Or, am I dreaming? Videos definately give me a nostalgic feeling in watching them again.
competition against iTunes? (Score:2)
(http://www.krunk4ever.com/)
It'll be nice to have music videos come back for free.
MTV could have done this (Score:2)
From The Buggles, to Thomas Dolby, to The Thompson Twins -- I would have snapped them up. Sorry about that MTV networks -- you were too slow to offer this, and now I can get them for free.
Chip H.
PS: You can keep the trashy "reality" shows. I've got -zero- interest in them.
They should be free...thank you (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Sunday November 03 2002, @01:58PM)
NOTE to anybody that pays for a music video -- I have some commercials for sale. They come in 30 second blocks, some of them mildy funny and can be had for $1.99 a piece ($3.50 for the Apple commercials). Act today and we will throw in a Steve Jobs bobble head doll with every purchase over 20 dollars.
This sounds familiar... (Score:1)
Don't they already? (Score:1)
(http://www.filthynoises.com/)
One video (Score:2)
Re:My first downloads (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Saturday February 19 2005, @08:28AM)
-uso.
Re:Still no current Flash plug-in for Firefox-Linu (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Saturday February 19 2005, @08:28AM)
-uso.
Re:They should do a real time replay (Score:2)
(http://fbjon.deviantart.com/gallery/ | Last Journal: Saturday May 21 2005, @09:56AM)
Re:My first downloads (Score:3, Informative)
(http://zone-mr.net/)
Tease Me, Please Me - Scorpions [youtube.com]
Crazy Cool - Paula Abdul [youtube.com]
Remind me what you need to wait for?
It's all there already (Score:2)