Viral Music Videos A Problem For RIAA

prostoalex writes "A few years ago music videos were considered promotional, a tease to get the viewer to buy the whole album. However, now that a commercial market for music videos is springing up, the music industry is not quite happy with YouTube, iFilm, Google Video and other video sharing sites distributing the music videos of famous artists. Billboard magazine says: 'The RIAA estimates that sales of music videos topped $3.7 million in three months, after being introduced in October. Meanwhile, the major labels also are sharing in the profits of ad-supported video-on-demand offerings from AOL, Yahoo, Music Choice and others. That is revenue the music industry is keenly interested in protecting. Hopes are that YouTube and others will ink similar deals with the industry in the long run.'"

Erm.

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope YouTube isn't hosted in sweden.

Viral...

[brenddie]

For a moment I though this was about some kind of "sony-rootkit" fiasco from the MPAA...

Re:Pay?? For a music video??

[NosTROLLdamus]

Why bother paying the rapist to rape you some more when you can just rape yourself, or masterbate if your not into self-rape, same thing, right?

What the fuck does this even mean? HAVE YOU STOPPED FAILING ENGLISH YET?

What's next? Pay-per-view advertising?

[AmazingRuss]

These people are off the deep end. Maybe they should cut to the chase and get laws passed that force us to buy their crap at gunpoint.

"Time for your new Brittany CD, citizen!"

Re:proof the RIAA is insane

[milkman_matt]

The RIAA and MPAA remind me of an old Peanuts cartoon, where Lucy takes all of Linus' toys away, and leaves him a rubber band to play with... I've got to dig that up, it's so appropriate (do you remember it?).

Careful! Someone may want to start selling comics online next!

Excellent idea!

[macemoneta]

Music videos are advertisements - commercials, and charging for them is the best idea I have heard in decades! Perhaps the idea will catch on, and all advertisements will be withheld from us unless we pay. Poor us, life will be so boring just watching our programs without the joy commercial interruptions bring.

The MPAA could learn a lot from this! That's right, keep those movie trailers under lock and key! They usually show all the interesting parts of the movie, and they are condensed into just a few minutes! Who would pay to see a bloated movie when the Cliff Notes version is available?!? They should be charging more for the trailers than the movies. Pull them from the theaters and TV! That way, people will want to see the movies even more.

Oh, and someone check the water coolers at the RIAA. I suspect that some joker has been dropping LSD in with the bottle deliveries.

Re:Viral sites are on the rise for this very reaso

[Bluesman]

I don't have anything to say, but I just wanted to applaud you for being the first person in the history of Slashdot to spell "lose" correctly. Bravo, sir.

Re:proof the RIAA is insane - Every Note

[spacecowboy420]

I would love to see them start trying to get guitar manufacturers to pay the RIAA tax because the istruments could be used for stealing "stairway to heaven" and "smoke on the water"...

Re:The music industry is never happy

[Kamineko]

I'm sure they'll be happy once they've banned talking about music or videos.

That, and whistling in public.

Tell ya what,

[vonsneerderhooten]

lemme kno when the RIAA is happy.

It might be news then.

Re:Erm.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, a million videos of the scene in FF7 where Sepiroth kills Aeris set to Linkin Park music. HOLY SHIT I DO NOT CARE.

Re:O-Zone (Numa Numa)

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Just take the Numa Numa video on the internet from a year ago. This is a potential hit song made popular in the US from the "Numa Numa" video at http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/206373 [newgrounds.com] that went nowhere on the buying charts due to pure stupidity of the recording industry. If you liked this song, you couldn't buy it.

I know this is slashdot and the culture is to be inward nerd looking, but even then I think you are vastly overestimating the general public's interest in non-uniform memory architecture.

Re:The music industry is never happy

[Firehed]

Once they finally ban music in order to completely eliminate piracy, they'll stop whining. That is, until they realize that they - the music industry - just banned music. But they won't be able to whine about that, since it'll be too musical. Then the entire world bursts out in songs of joy that the RIAA is dead, and is promptly arrested.

What a future.

RIAA here is an acronym for you

[ThePengwin]

STFU

Re:proof the RIAA is insane - Every Note

[Andy Somnifac]

Apparently some music stores have already taken care of that. Ask Wayne.

"No Stairway? Denied." - Wayne Campbell

Re:proof the RIAA is ISN'T insane

[popeguilty]

In further proof that Analee Newitz is a goddess, last year she got Jack Valenti to autograph a Beta cassette- containing a recording of Valenti's Boston Strangler speech.