YouTube to Offer Every Music Video Ever Created?

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."

Do we really need all of them?

[Kryis]

Isn't it best to forget some things (like the Spice Girls)?

Lose more money!

[slapyslapslap]

Wow, they can license the content, give it away for free, and lose even MORE money! They must be going for a world record burn rate.

All the good ones

[Kohath]

They already have all the good ones ever created. All 5 of them.

Do you get to choose the 18 months?

[krell]

"every music video ever created within 18 months"

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:Already there?

[Rob T Firefly]

Upon closer inspection, half of them are composed of the same three anime clips edited and re-edited together.

We don't need to stinking hats.

[jtownatpunk.net]

We can dance if we want to We can leave your friends behind 'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance Well they're no friends of mine Soon to be the number one requested video.

Re:Do we really need all of them?

[Rob T Firefly]

Isn't it best to forget some things (like the Spice Girls)?

No! Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it! And you know the cycle of nostalgia will eventually hit, and some victim of degenerative amnesia will wake up one day thinking "That 'Wannabe' wasn't all that bad, was it? Sort of catchy..."

Re:Bad bargaining position

[aapold]

>They should use the Tom Sawyer method

I love that video!

Re:But what will MTV do?

[IDontAgreeWithYou]

Oh well, at least we'll get to see some of that cool old David Bowie video again... :)

Funny, the first video I thought of was Billy Idol's "Rock the cradle of love". That girl was TEH HOTTT!!!

Re:Do we really need all of them?

[enitime]

"Isn't it best to forget some things (like the Spice Girls)?"

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santanaya

First YouTube Song...

[digitaldc]

YouTube killed the video star.

Re:Do we really need all of them?

[Kryis]

You probably wont be saying that when someone decides to ressurect the "Crazy frog" becuase they dont remember it being as bad as it actually was.

Re:But what will MTV do?

[Anonymous Coward]

A few months ago, I was flipping through the channels when I landed on MTV. The host said, "After the break, we're going to do something shocking."

My thought was, "Ooh. They're actually going to play a video!"

...divinating...

[Anonymous Coward]

*gazes into crystal ball*

Prediction: Metallica will sue.

Re:Do you get to choose the 18 months?

[eln]

No no, you have it all wrong. YouTube is going to be providing every video that took less than 18 months to make. Christ man, get some reading comprehension skills.

Re:We don't need to stinking hats.

[Nerdfest]

We can leave your friends behind

This is one of those sentences that's a perfect example of why proper use of the apostrophe is important.

Not likely

[harris s newman]

I never released mine, so they won't have every one.

Re:Do we really need all of them?

[crosbie]

Those who believe humanity can learn from its history forget that human DNA is a lot older.

So actually, we are doomed to repeat our history - until nature selects out our tendency to repeat it.

The worrying possibility is that 'repeating ones history' may be a good species survival trait...

Meanwhile

[MrDiablerie]

Meanwhile, MTV still refuses to play videos.

Re:But what will MTV do?

[nightsweat]

Man, that video was dangerous in the hands of a male teenager.

Hands? Plural?

Re:RIAA will love it

[cayenne8]

Actually, I'm wondering if YouTube will do this....have all music videos, and then as years go by, start showing less, and less music, and turn basically into a horrible glut of 'reality tv'....kinda like how MTV and VH1 did?

I guess we'll know the end is near, when YouTube announces it will carry all of "The Real Life" episodes....