Comments on: Sources: YouTube, not Warner Music, pulled videos

In contract negotiations, Warner made "11th-hour" demand and received its answer from YouTube when the company began yanking the label's videos.

[Argyll]

Sounds like the same kind of crap that Warner, and other music labels, have tried to pull with Apple at the iTunes store. Glad to see that YouTube has the same kind of guts that Apple does and to tell them to go to hell. You need us more than we need you! Let the music labels hang themselves!

[t8]

The record companies are so owned.
They abused their power by ripping off artists, and now they are losing their power.
Has any corporation ever thought that by playing fair that you might be in business longer?
Maybe Google?

[open-mind]

Brilliant idea Warner. Spend millions creating a YouTube clone that nobody will use and won't make you a dime. That way, evil YouTube can't pay you millions to provide that same service.

So why is the music industry in decline? I just don't get it.

[ittesi259]

Oh wow....thats right record companies....YouTube basically said screw off! Well at least to Warner.

Warner: Resistance is futile....
YouTube: Whatev *pulls down all warner's music*
Warner: Does not compute
YouTube: Try getting paid per play and ad revenue now *******!

[YankeePoodle]

I like Google, but I would reserve my judgment only after knowing the 11th hour demand. Yeah, I know the 11th hour demand may sound outrageous in any negotiations, but who knows Warner thought it was getting short-end of the stick and wants to have their piece of the pie.

What Hulu has demonstrated is that you can create a competitor of YouTube and thrive. So, it is not bad idea for all the music guys to have a single site of their own.

[badasscat]

Who says Hulu is "thriving"?

[Lerianis]

A lot of people say that Hulu is thriving. They offer a lot of shows that Youtube cannot offer, at a higher bitrate, and quicker.

[David Turner]

Lerianis:

But only to the US and there is a lot more people in the whole world then just the US population

[myles taylor]

You know though, the main people who suffer from these struggles is us as the consumer. I hope they work this out and can get back to delivering content.

[ddesy]

The consumer will keep getting the short end of the stick unless people and companies like Google stand up to the music industry. The music industry doesn't seem to have realized that the game has changed.

[orthotox]

Good to know. Thanks, man.

[We7Stevep]

Consumers have never been in a better position to be able to demand delivery of their music the way they want to consume it because the only way to rival music and video piracy, is to offer the consumer what they want for free, monetising content in a different way - cue ad-funded models like We7.

Steve Purdham
CEO - We7

[Fiale]

Warner have just shot themselves in the foot - I am sure a lot of revenue is more passive from youtube, for example I have bought several CD's and downloads when hearing soundtracks to videos I have enjoyed (mainly gaming videos) I recently bought the enitre back catalouge of Karl Jenkins ( a WMG artist) after Adiemus as the background to a lovely video -

So record companies I imagine make a hell of a lot via people just reading the comments / acknowledgments and going out to purchase games / videos they have seen on YouTUbe. It would appear that if all WMGs music is pulled from Youtube that they will not see as much of my cash in the future - which is a real shame.