Youtube

YES! They removed videos that have music on it...fair enough BUT You can't listen or buy the music anywhere else! What the **** are they taking it off for!

I'm happy to say that downloading your music is wrong! It's stealing and I don't think you should do it. But when youtube take off videos of music or disable the music on the videos then that ********!

This copyright protection is a joke! It going to far

Hi all

Is anyone else getting annoyed with youtube removing videos which most clearly don't break the rules on there? and music videos getting removed because of copyright when its doing no damage to the company what so ever

Yes how dare someone protect their intellectual property. Just because you want to watch something doesn't mean you can. If you don't have the rights to distribute a video you can't do it.

It does cost the artist money if people can watch the videos on Youtube, because they don't receive the royalties they would if the video was being shown on the likes of MTV. This is the reason that the music videos were taken down Youtube couldn't come to an arrangement with some of the record companies as to how much they should receive when their videos were played.

Yes you are right BUT....if you would like to read what I wrote you'll see that I was saying was if the artist doesn't release their song for sale then they have no argument. It's not stealing if the artist isn't losing out.

It is their song though. If they don't want to make it available they don't have to. If people use it for their own videos they still need the permission of the copyright holder. By making these videos available to people Youtube are helping to break the artists copyright hence the reason they have had to remove the videos.

They aren't artists if they don't let people hear their music. A doctor isn't a doctor if s/he doesn't treat me.

Simple as really!

The whole point of copyright is to protect the income from their songs. But if they do not intend to let their songs be heard or make money. Then why bother with copyright! Who makes art only to be locked away for nobody to see or hear?!

What is simple is that the music they have copyrighted belongs to them and them alone. If they choose not to release and they are under no obligation too, then that is their business. You do not have the right to broadcast/use their property without their consent.

It would be like me stealing a car from your garage just because you didn't wish to drive it any more. Just because you aren't using it doesn't mean I have the right to take it from you simply because I want too.

How does that example even fit into the is being said?! Please tell me how stealing a car is the same to listening to a song you don't own? You quite clearly aren't listening to the argument at all.

If you steal a car that I own. I can not use that car. If you listen to a song that I own the copy rights too which I've not been bothered to release then I can be losing out.

I don't see why people can not simply LISTEN to music which has not been released. I am not talking about stealing any of the income made from that music....PLEASE LISTEN TO THE ARGUMENT YOU MORON!

I don't mind that they remove videos so much, what's really annoying is some of them, they just remove the sound. So the video is still up, just its mute.