Thursday, April 2, 2009

YouTube Gets Blocked Again


YouTube had blocked all German users from getting music which is produced in Germany by local artists due to a failure to make some business deal with the German organization responsible for the copyright law – GEMA, said Gigwise. Another scandal surrounding YouTube, what can be worse for this video service which loses it’s positions in quality standards to numerous services of this kind all around the world. At least before arguing with anyone on the business issues they have to make their own video service grow higher in terms of interface, some strange censorship values and the wide screen projection. However, hence they’re the first ones, people still believe that YouTube is the best, so do copyright organizations and as the result of it only they get blocked. The previous agreement made between Google (YouTube’s owner) and GEMA was signed in 2007 to last for one and a half years. Currently, GEMA had demanded to get a share of one Euro cent per a single view, but YouTube did not suport such a measure. Simply, YouTube believes that it would be impossible to cover these expanses through advertisment and wants to remain with the old system when they’ve paid some fixed price.


On March 9 YouTube had announced that it will block a lot of British videos due to the same argument, but back than it was PRS – The Performing Rights Society.


A Source: ThatsJustMusic.com

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