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Users, not labels, silence YouTube music videos
- paul7986 18y agoThis is bad PR for Warner and good for YouTube! Should hasten their negotiates!
- tokenadult 18y agoHurrah! The submitted article links to an official YouTube statement on the issue (from YouTube's blog). "Previously, when a music label or other rights owner issued a copyright claim to block audio, the video was automatically taken down. Uploaders had two choices: dispute the claim or use our AudioSwap tool to replace the track with one from our library of pre-cleared music. Now we've added an additional choice. Instead of automatically removing the video from YouTube, users can choose to leave the video muted and live on the site, and many of them are taking that option."
- DarkShikari 18y ago"Users, not labels, silence Youtube videos" is an absurd title. If someone goes up to you with a gun and tells you to give him your wallet or he shoots you, and you "choose" to give him your wallet, it wasn't really your choice--the guy made you give him your wallet. Similarly, when Youtube tells people that they either have to mute the videos or have them all deleted, it isn't much of a "choice" at all for the user. Youtube is the one deciding to silence the videos, not the user.