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Why do you want to purchase a music video??? Do you run a TV station and will re-broadcast it, or some other broadcasting strategy?
by unixhero 7y ago
Why do you want to purchase a music video??? Do you run a TV station and will re-broadcast it, or some other broadcasting strategy?
- DyslexicAtheist 7y agowhy would it be for rebroadcast purposes? not OP but I want to have such things streamed to my TV in my own home.
- unixhero 7y agoBecause music videos are free.
- DyslexicAtheist 7y agoI would pay money for original media because the data will likely be in it's "best" original encoding, metadata etc. And nobody other than the studio has meddled with it. You don't get that using youtube-dl or torrenting formats other people provide. edit: Music production evolves over time and digital content distribution is very different in the mixing business. Older formats are not built with streaming in mind and so you lose a lot of quality during upload to streaming services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc
- PhantomGremlin 7y agoThank you for explaining. Many videos on YouTube are low quality. Also, if I buy it I expect that some decent percentage of my purchase price makes it back to the original artist. (I know, very naïve of me). If I get it off youtube then the artist might get just a fraction of a cent in the best case.
- rchaud 7y agoWhy not? In college (mid-2000s), I downloaded hundreds of music videos from the '80s and '90s on Limewire. This was before they were posted online on Youtube, many of which are clearly TV rips, as they feature the TV channel's logo in the corner. These make up an important part of music history. Youtube will not be around forever, and many of these videos will one day disappear, just like many websites of yore have.