Comments on: Music and MTV and YouTube and Stuff

By: hexcrass

hexcrass — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:36:28 +0000

Wow that totally embedded, didn’t it.

By: hexcrass

hexcrass — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:35:44 +0000

Youtube really doesn’t care, they don’t even check if the complainer actually owns the content, as you can see from the recent punk music takedowns, by Greg Ginn/SST Records, where videos with music from punk bands that were never on SST got taken down.
http://www.anarcho-punk.net/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=7679

Also: Madness- “House of Fun”
via The Young Ones :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcE0M5GnhHw

By: lethargic

lethargic — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:27:34 +0000

I think the Youtube part of it is more Youtube’s knee jerk reactionary policies than it is the labels/studios. WMG would probably never notice or care about your video. But Youtube has gone over the top with their policy to the point you can hardly get away with anything anymore.

It’s like they don’t even look at the video to see if it falls under fair use or whatever. They give you a place to defend yourself but it doesn’t seem like anybody actually reads it to give you a second chance.

I made a Darth Vader video which got so popular that they started asking me to put ads on it. Then a few weeks later they pulled it off due to a copyright claim by FunnyorDie. I had expected it could get taken down, but not by FunnyorDie. I explained to Youtube that there is NO WAY FunnyorDie could own the copyright on Star Wars, that the video that FunnyorDie had that was similar to mine was posted weeks after mine was. Nobody there did anything. I contacted FunnyorDie and they got it in reinstated the next day.

Then the other day the American Idol winner was going to sing on Jay Leno. I was looking at it and after Leno introduced him and the guy opened his mouth to start singing, a EBS test came on. It was absolutely PERFECT timing and it was hysterical. So I thought I’d upload it for others to see.

Well it lasted about 3 minutes before they blocked it. Once again they give me a chance to respond. I explain, LOOK AT THE VIDEO, it doesn’t even have actual audio of the show, it’s an EBS test, it’s less than 1 minute of an hour long show, it should completely fall under the fair use rules. You have a million other clips from the Tonight Show on youtube, why is this one not allowed?

No answer. It’s still blocked. So I put it up on liveleak where there hasn’t been a single issue with it. NBC still hasn’t sued me.

And after these two videos, Youtube blocked my IP from even LOOKING at the site and forced me to watch a video on copyrights and then made me pass a quiz in order to visit the site again.

By: MagnumIP

MagnumIP — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:06:47 +0000

Hmm that’s an interesting take, about MTV running commercials disguised as music videos. But I supposed that makes sense, seeing how they usually played many of the same ones repeatedly. Probably similar to radio stations playing certain songs repeatedly. Do you think MTV and radio stations get paid to play certain songs rather than others? It always seemed like no matter how much you hated a certain song, if you heard it enough, you’ll catch yourself singing it or humming it somewhere.

My routine in high school was watching MTV, Yo MTV Raps, and BET’s Rap City. Then going to my local Tower Records and picking up the cassette single, which later turned into the CD single.

Now, I no longer have cable/satellite, all the Tower Records have closed, and I only have one old walkman to play my old tapes. It’s amazing how music has changed. For new music, I guess my source these days is internet radio and podcasts. However, I have noticed that a lot of my music purchases these days are of “classic” albums that I missed or just never got around to picking up.

People always say that their generation’s music was the best and whatever is current sucks. But I *truly* do feel like the music I listened to in high school was the best and stuff these days just doesn’t hold up as well. But maybe MTV/BET had something to do with that…