YouTube Now Muting Copyrighted Audio
Posted 01/15/09 at 03:45:58 PM by Paul Lilly
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If you're trying to watch a YouTube video and can't get the sound to work, it could be by design. The Google-owned video sharing site has just implemented a new policy which won't remove a user's videos containing copyrighted audio, but it will mute the audio stream, allowing the offending video to play on sans sound.
The new policy comes as a result of YouTube's ongoing dispute with Warner Music Group. Last month, Warner forced YouTube to cut off access to videos containing copyrighted music, following a breakdown in talks over licensing agreements. The video sharing site appears to have found a workaround until those talks come to a conclusion.
"Music licensing can get very complicated, but we try to make your experience as simple as possible," YouTube wrote in a blog post. "We want you to have options when uploading videos with music in them. And if your video is subject to a copyright claim, you should have some choices too."
YouTube recommends that anyone whose videos have been flagged and muted to check out Audioswap, which is a library of pre-cleared music.
Yea but then I guess there
Submitted by Budgetperson on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 3:40pm
Yea but then I guess there are millions of programs that can download the Music Vids off of YouTube... which translates into free music :-/.
but then there a dosens of
Submitted by nekollx on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 4:02pm
but then there a dosens of sites peopel can upload their own music videos too, guess that means YouTube folds.
Now this is just fucking
Submitted by bjoswald on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 10:00am
Now this is just fucking stupid. Why not remove the videos completely, and set some kind of algorythm to block future vidoes of that nature? Keeping them cached (and stored) just wastes bandwidth and storage. Not only that, but it won't prevent people from adding them again later. Completely pointless.
Silent Movies make a comeback...
Submitted by dwr50 on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 6:16am
at least on Youtube. It's all about money, people !
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Submitted by K0BALT on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 10:25pm
That means we should have the right to have the music in any pop-up ads muted from the start.
Submitted by Vegan on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 4:36pm
My power, my pleasure, my pain---
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Submitted by tehR0XX0Rz on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 3:45pm
The audio in those videos always sounds like crap--it can't even be FM quality. That being the case, I don't see how sales are being damaged by the use of extremely low-quality audio samples.
YouTube isn't costing the music industry a dime, so they should stop acting like such %@#&ing &*@holes.
I'm so disgusted, I think I'll go vent my anger over at Pirate Bay.
Fair Use
Submitted by QUINTIX256 on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 2:15pm
I don't think the ability to listen to full length tracks without the artist recieving any revenue falls under fair use. But then again, I have been wanting to do a mashup of gameplay from Half-Life to Episode two to the tune of Ozzy's Crazy Train to poke fun Valve's train fettish.
There must be a simple means to get permission from a publisher to use a copyrighted work.
You can have your recession. I'm not participating.
free advertising?
Submitted by cigar3tte on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 2:13pm
Wouldn't record companies want their songs heard more, as a form of advertisement? Hey, if I hear a good song on a YouTube video, I just might go find it and buy it. This is seriously getting ridiculous.
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Sounds like a violation of
Submitted by jcollins on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 1:55pm
Sounds like a violation of fair use to me too.
Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 2:02pm
sounds to me like the Tap trument for YouTube.
NEWSFLASH: A site built on the shareing of user generated content wont last long when user generated content is rendered agaisnt the ToS
Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 1:44pm
so now its agaisnt the rules to make not-for-profits mashups?
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