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YouTube makes money off of content on their site. They also stop certain publishers/authors/fans from posting certain content, while allowing others to post the same exact content.
Example A could be a random YT user that posts Daft Punk's Interstella that all of a sudden is 'not available in your country', while another random user's same uploaded content is available. Why is it that user A's content is rejected/censored/banned, but user B's same exact content is not? Does Google make more off of user B than user A? Is user B a guerilla employee of the company that owns the rights to the music in question?
I see this all the time. Click a link I had to a song, only to get a 'not available in your country' or (paraphrasing) 'they did not own the rights'. And yet, I can find the exact same songs, or copyrighted material on another YT users channel easily. Why was the one I bookmarked deemed illegal, yet another or even 20 others not?
I'm just kind of pissed that I have to constantly find what I want to hear again and again. Sometimes it's a case of a song that the new link is Vevo or another recognized music IP owner, but mostly it's just finding another random YT poster with no rights that posts a song I want to hear.
Why is it okay to listen to random guy B's YT vid of Bowie's Space Oddity, but my bookmarked random guy A's version of the same content is somehow bad?
I'm not a sue-happy guy, but I can't listen to some songs I really like that went through the Google-no-you-cant-have-that process. There is one local Seattle recording of a band that does Darling Nikki far better than the dinosaur formerly known as Prince could ever do.. but; it's gone and I didn't save it because I never thought someone could suppress a cover. Not a huge deal, but I'd sue to hear it again.
Example A could be a random YT user that posts Daft Punk's Interstella that all of a sudden is 'not available in your country', while another random user's same uploaded content is available. Why is it that user A's content is rejected/censored/banned, but user B's same exact content is not? Does Google make more off of user B than user A? Is user B a guerilla employee of the company that owns the rights to the music in question?
I see this all the time. Click a link I had to a song, only to get a 'not available in your country' or (paraphrasing) 'they did not own the rights'. And yet, I can find the exact same songs, or copyrighted material on another YT users channel easily. Why was the one I bookmarked deemed illegal, yet another or even 20 others not?
I'm just kind of pissed that I have to constantly find what I want to hear again and again. Sometimes it's a case of a song that the new link is Vevo or another recognized music IP owner, but mostly it's just finding another random YT poster with no rights that posts a song I want to hear.
Why is it okay to listen to random guy B's YT vid of Bowie's Space Oddity, but my bookmarked random guy A's version of the same content is somehow bad?
I'm not a sue-happy guy, but I can't listen to some songs I really like that went through the Google-no-you-cant-have-that process. There is one local Seattle recording of a band that does Darling Nikki far better than the dinosaur formerly known as Prince could ever do.. but; it's gone and I didn't save it because I never thought someone could suppress a cover. Not a huge deal, but I'd sue to hear it again.
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