I don’t know. A lot of this reads like what got written in places like LA and Toronto about Moneyball after DePodesta and Ricciardi got fired. The strategy is a bad one because it failed and so on.

This is so disingenuous it makes me kinda angry; these dudes are being used as the public face of the labels, if they owned the rights to their recordings, they could take them down in a hot minute. Instead of renegotiating their shitty contracts with the labels, these artists have been convinced that re-writing the…

Considering that YouTube already has Content ID and other systems in place to take down videos that use copyrighted music without permission, this is a bad idea that will hurt creative freedom and fair use.

My main issue with this is that this is not about paying artists what they’re worth (for which I am very much in favor). This is about changing the nature and purpose of rights laws to better support large corporations in the changing landscape of the internet.

Aspiring my ass. It’s ironic that an actual aspiring artist would kill for a video of them singing to go viral, and yet these asshats, who’ve already made it, are scared they may be losing a few dollars. Trust me, you’re not and for the one’s who haven’t become famous, locking down the internet is the worst thing you…

The DMCA needs to be updated and changed, no doubt about it, but this is the wrong way to go about it. This would have a chilling effect on smaller artists and content creators on YouTube. Hank Green, half of the Vlogbrothers and musician, has been talking about this on his channel and his Twitter for awhile.

Color me shocked that Taylor Swift™ would be party to such corporate whoredom.