Hey, I love a good pile on, but the attorney is blameless from what I've seen. It's his obligation to defend his client as best he can, despite however scummy he may be.

Yeah, we should totally encourage people to defend rapists. Since we can't use mind control guess we might as well do nothing.

Unfortunately, I have to disagree. There were multiple shots showing 5 people surrounding Dayne, but most of them were just dancing around instead of killing him immediately.

Mistakes were made with how they handled Napster, but it's not really analogous to criticizing YouTube for their crappy pay outs. They're not suing YouTube, and they're not pulling any music off YouTube. I don't see them as being greedy here. Many other artists have complained about low pay outs as well.

Premium Spotify users give the artist about 6 times more money per stream than YouTube.

And now she's on Tidal, Rhapsody and Apple Music's streaming service. I'm not sure if those pay more or less than spotify, but spotify still pays more than youtube.

I don't agree that it's similar to pulling an album from all streaming services honestly. Most of my friends use spotify, so I may be biased, but it is still easily accessible.

I agree, that is brutal. I've noticed that issue with most free services that serve up ads (looking at you Hulu). I hope as these things get more and more viewers, advertisers will finally start taking them seriously.

I believe if you register with a major publishing company (ASCAP or BMI), which most musicians do, they will auto-detect it.

Or people can just listen on spotify, which is free as well.

Because they get a lot more money per stream from spotify, which is available for free as well.

Youtube pays out at a much lower rate than other streaming services like spotify.

YouTube actually does have the capability to automatically identify copyrighted audio and video, so no manual reporting necessary. Some people do try to get around this with audio and/or video effects though.

To be fair, YouTube pays about 1/3 the rate as Spotify does per stream. This comment is literally only about YouTube, not about streaming.

Metallica is on Spotify though. I'm pretty sure literally the entire catalog is available there, and since they've had the rights to their catalog for a few years already, I doubt it will go away any time soon.

You're right. Total music sales have gone down drastically since the heyday of the CD in the late 80s and 90s.

And The Immigrant.

It's actually completely different because Vanilla Ice stole the entire riff, note for note, except adding a single note at the end. Blurred Lines did not steal anything from Gaye note for note, only the general vibe.

Take a look at the songwriting credits for 1989. She only wrote one song by herself, "This Love." All of her hits off her last two albums have been written by Max Martin. She was originally billed as being a talented songwriter, but she stopped writing her own music when she crossed over to pop.