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Originally Posted by lagavulin16  I think that you've made some great points.
I do find it interesting that so many here look at the past decade which has been horrible for music and newspapers (online and offline revenues combined for both), and they'll say music's issues are all caused by piracy yet the news industries issues were not. |
I'm not sure how many people have said that the news industries issues aren't fairly similar. It's somewhat different in that the product has a very limited time period of value. But they were pretty much forced online by the internet phenomenon, and as soon as they went digital, they were going down the same road as the music industry.
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I've also written about the difference in listening to music when I was 13 (had to buy the tape, copy it off the radio, copy it off MTV, or copy it off a friend) versus the average 13 year old today who can listen to whatever song they want free/legally on youtube.com or the record company's website.
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A lot of it on Youtube is likely not legally there. The problem is that Youtube requires that the copyright holder formally complain and ask it be removed. So the onus is on the copyright holder to spend a lot of time tracking down their stuff being illegally uploaded and making a complaint. Then of course it's right back up the next day. You see people discussing it in threads when something is blocked, that everyone should download it and just keep uploading it. They are evil little dickheads really.
So Youtube makes money by the boatload, and forces the copyright holder to do all the work, and they know that someone will put it right back up so they'll continue making money by the boatload. They copyright holder cannot just say, NEVER allow this song to be posted. Clearly Youtube actively removes porn before it even gets seen as far as I can tell, so you know they have people monitoring all new posts, therefore they cannot claim they don't watch them all.