Warner Music Group has taken down tens of thousands of amateur videos uploaded on YouTube, citing an ongoing copyright dispute with the giant video sharing site.
"Thousands of videos disappeared," added Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer for the EFF. "Either they turned off the audio, or they pulled the video."
Many of the videos taken down are non-commercial family videos that contain clips ... [ read the full article ]
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What do they all have in common? Well, first they are creative and get a following for what they offer. Finally, unfortunately, they get bought by a big corporation and corrupted.
Originally posted by Ragnarok8: Good luck trying to completely remove all "your" stuff off the Internet. I recall hearing that the Internet is pretty big (and constantly growing).
Well technically they did invest the money to get the music made and then invested more money to get everyone to know what the music was. So it is their music unfortunately.
All this does though is push more people away from them. Nobodys going to understand why their video was pulled for copyright infringement when some crappy song was playing in the background. It's just going to get the people to realize that they don't own the music they paid for, and also gets them to question radio again. If it's free over the radio then it should be free everywhere.
