'YOUTUBE is EVIL': Somebody had a tape running, Google
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'YOUTUBE is EVIL': Somebody had a tape running, Google
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#2Here's a link to the transcript that's referenced in this article [0]
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#3I think it's time for a serious YouTube competitor with more favorable terms for the content creators. Jason Calacanis seems very prescient now [0].
[0] http://blog.launch.co/blog/i-aint-gonna-work-on-youtubes-far...
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#4[Update: Sat. morning: After discovering that Keating was taking detailed notes of her conversation with a YouTube representative, YouTube appears to be re-grouping to clarify their policies and figure out exactly what artists are being told. They have also not clearly explained why they are demanding a retraction from Digital Music News. More as it develops.]
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/01/23/breakin...
This is getting interesting.
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#5[Update: Sat. morning: After discovering that Keating was taking detailed notes of her conversation with a YouTube representative, YouTube appears to be re-grouping to clarify their policies and figure out exactly what artists are being told. They have also not clearly explained why they are demanding a retraction from Digital Music News. More as it develops.] http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/01/23/brea…
Addendum - what is key here is that Zoe's original post was balanced and rational and even-handed. Even if YouTube disputed the factual aspects of it then this was a really poor way to go about it and has merely confirmed the feeling that they are throwing their weight around with small artists.
They could have turned things around by engaging in dialog and still got their point across.
Someone at YouTube needs to go back to PR school after this.
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#6The most realistic solution to the problem => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8937287
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#7Googs being terrible? Who would've guessed.
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#8I think it's time for a serious YouTube competitor with more favorable terms for the content creators. Jason Calacanis seems very prescient now [0]. [0] http://blog.launch.co/blog/i-aint-gonna-work-on-youtubes-far...
The same thing will happen to any competitor. You get big enough and record companies will want to control the shit out of you. They will sue you and write laws against you and intimidate the crap out of you.
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#9I think it's time for a serious YouTube competitor with more favorable terms for the content creators. Jason Calacanis seems very prescient now [0]. [0] http://blog.launch.co/blog/i-aint-gonna-work-on-youtubes-far...
The huge problem is Youtube is the go-to place when teenagers and young adults want to listen to a piece[0] and they know it.
[0] the alternative being torrents, and they're very much non-instant.
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#10Can anyone make sense of what the Google representative is saying in the last paragraph of the transcript, the part that goes "your channel will be separated from the deal and you can enter into a regular youtube partner commercial terms which allows you to monetize the content"? What music would be monetizable under that scheme?