I agree, but it has actually nothing to do with them being organic. The organic part is quack. It just often coincides with more non-mainstream types of produce and sometimes slightly better treatment.

AFAIK, Whole Foods main business is not quack snake oil - it's organic produce.

So quack food?

Youtube can and only does block a video on an individual request (from the copyright owner or a society responsible to gather fees) regarding that video.

Not in this case. Youtube is the one who has decided to default block all music in Germany and claim GEMA asked for it. Read the article for instance, this is the lie they have been forced to change.

GEMA can not block a piece of music or a video containing that music, which it has not the authority to collect fees for (granted by the rights owner).

They don't. Youtube blocks them.

Hmmm...let's see:

1) GEMA (presumably) has the legal right to license the music.

No, not in most cases.

2) GEMA has not licensed the music, and ordered Google to remove it.

Only in less than 10 cases, the other one million blocked videos have been blocked by Google as collateral punishment.

3) Google removed it, and explained that it has been removed due to 1 and 2 above.

And everything else and then proceded to post a deliberate lie on the videos. A lie that was only taken down in some cases after the real copyright holder after talking to GEMA asked Youtube/Google to stop lying and unblock their content.

Even better "This video is not available, because FUCK YOU GERMANY".

That is the real reason. Youtube are blocking those videos, not GEMA, and it is fully within Youtube's right not to do business in Germany, but they shouldn't lie and blame anybody but themselves.

It isn't Youtube wanting to block it, that's why GEMA had to get a court order to get them to do it.

Only for a handfull of videos. Most of the blocked videos are unrelated to GEMA and has never been requested blocked by GEMA. Hence the court-order that Youtube can no longer lie and pretend this isn't purely something they are doing as part of their negotiations with GEMA.

Actually they don't even collect fees for 99.999% (yes 5 nines), of the videos youtube has randomly decided to block in Germany.

GEMA requested less than 10 videos blocked (unless fees are paid), but Youtube has blocked ALL videos containing any elements of music in Germany. The videos currently unblocked are those where the owner has gone first to GEMA to figure out why they asked it to be blocked, are told by very tired GEMA people they have nothing to do with it, and go to youtube, then forced Youtube to stop lying and unblock it germany.

Currently this leads to the odd situation of only music from bands touring in Germany are unblocked on Youtube as the bands one by one force Youtube to stop their unilateral German blockade.

Oh, it's GCHQ you say? Fine, the United Kindom (and the United States!) has signed, since 1948, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights [wikipedia.org]

The US voted for the declaration, but they never signed it into law. The US has issues with especially human right number 1, the one without which the rest are useless. The right to live.

Conversely, publishers don't sell an "unrated" version of a particular game in Germany or Australia because it would be illegal.

Please don't make shit up.

Language and logic shares the same part of the brain, the one dealing with deep structural analysis. Language is partially duplicated elsewhere but those are no exact and mostly deal with picking out general mood and your name.

Has it really been ten years? WTF!

+1 insightfull.

Sorry no points left, but it needs to be said.

Why, you want to lick him or stamp on him?

Yes, they lying. They are called Microsoft after all. There some things you can still trust.

Err. without advertisement.