I don't think Vimeo is a relevant format unless for new music videos.

Youtube is about one of the largest library of rare, lost, unreleased, or even unaccessible sound anywhere on this Internet. The interface is simple and pretty straighforward: you upload a song with the cover and it plays at such, although on the…

Yes. Everyone knows about the US and EU anti-trust cases levied against Microsoft. The issue at the time was that after MS had "naturally" achieved a (virtual) monopoly in the personal computing space, it abused this monopoly by bundling other software with their OS (Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc...)…

I love my Kindle HDX 8.9", but I really don't want a phone that locks me *out* of the Google ecosystem. Since I only use my Kindle for media consumption, it's not an issue (except for apps that I already purchased in Play Store that I'd have to re-purchase from Amazon). If I were someone that didn't care about my…

Might want to clean up your lede. It suggests that this is the first 3D smartphone, which is, of course, far from being the case.

Cue SoundCloud's video service, hopefully.

Yeah...I was like...wait ABOUT to? I thought content ID and unskippable 15s ads already roasted it into "Not awesome anymore" territory.

If you dispute a copyright claim through youtube's form and lose, you get a strike against your account. 3 strikes and they take your channel down entirely. It's best to call copyright holders directly and not use youtube's copyright dispute form, because some of them reject disputes automatically. It's crazy.

Can anyone explain to me (in non music industry terms) why Google needs to have two music services?

I can't tell you the name of any clients, sorry, but I can tell you one of the worst copyright flaggers is "AdRev for a 3rd party". Ad Rev, IIRC, is a company that holds the rights for many different artists, which adds to the confusion when tracking down licensing/receipts etc. from multiple our multiple video…

We have had luck when we do not use youtube's claim system as the first step. We contact the company/artist/licensee based on the name of the company listed in the copyright claim in our channel. It has saved enormous amounts of time. Sometimes that has required deleting a video and re-uploading it (which loses…

Google. Create something awesome, free, and open, and once it becomes popular slowly wall it off and destroy the things that everyone loved about it. They're even doing it to Android.

So is this what they mean with net neutrality? /s

It's not just about the videos, it's about a source of exposure for the artists. Even if their "video" is just sitting in an empty room singing their song, it won't matter because Google is bullying them into losing that exposure. And that's exactly what it is, bullying. Google says, "You don't sign a license with us,…

I know what you mean.. I run a youtube channel about technology. I've had videos removed or disabled because of copyright infringement, even though I paid the license fees and had the license to prove it. But it is nearly impossible to speak to a human being and get it resolved.

"It's official: Google is about to ruin YouTube."

yup, would be surprised if there's not some anti-trust action eventually

How? Theres other streaming services out there you (the artist) can use

I feel like youtube is already dead. We have clients who have many, many videos on their channels. Some went viral, reaching up to 9 million views (which is decent for a business that isn't pepsi or apple). And then recently they had well over 30 videos flagged by the content ID system for using copyrighted music…

So, just as a new promising world opens up where artists can benefit more directly from sales by cutting out the often criminal distributors, a new set of suits are ready to rape musicians (and filmmakers) all over again.