See, I find this a wee bit contradictory. You want you songs played on the radio, right? Radio is (kind of) free (ignoring that the ad/content ratio, like in TV, has risen to make it pointless). Songs on the radio are promotion for your product. We hope that people hear music and then run out and buy it because they like it so much.jlaudon wrote:Another scourge of piracy and the internet.. today a fellow songwriter called me up to chat and commented on how he liked a song I recently did for a UMG singer here in HK. He also mentioned he did a couple songs on the same CD. Later in the day, he emailed links to Youtube versions of the 3 songs. Some jerk put all the songs up there the same the CD was released. I want to go and shove a few CDs down the pirate's throat...
Youtube should be able to 'police' this, as it is widespread, and almost every CD that's released is uploaded there - people aren't downloading pirated songs as much, but are listening to them this way instead.
Monty Python launched a YouTube channel last year. Here's the launch announcement:
So they've taken matters into their own hands and they see youtube as their own personal promotional TV channel for promoting their products. I think this is the right approach. If people bother to pirate you, then they like you. So take the initiative and try to leverage the exposure into a sale.For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands.
We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back: We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube.
No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting. We're giving you the real thing - HQ videos delivered straight from our vault.
What's more, we're taking our most viewed clips and uploading brand new HQ versions. And what's even more, we're letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there!
But we want something in return.
None of your driveling, mindless comments. Instead, we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.
Key thing about youtube is you can't take it with you. The content can be viewed at the site, embedded on another site (this can be disabled), but not downloaded to your ipod.
Say it with me "youtube is like radio". More to the point, you can pull a bunch of fan demographics and play counts out if it if you are the uploader.
