Comments on: EMI sidles up to YouTube http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9075 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9075/comment-page-1#comment-47992 Reader's Write Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:52:42 +0000 #comment-47992 the more appropriate question is "what is there to compensate for?" music videos are promotional tool. Something that helps a band sell more albums, get more airplay, and hopefully, more people to their shows. What EMI is trying to do is akin to making someone purchase the ability to watch a movie trailer (note my use of "the ability," as even though you purchased it, you don't own it). Screw that, I just won't watch the trailer. I don't see why people would pay to watch a promotional video, especially as you note, bands do it for free on their websites the more appropriate question is “what is there to compensate for?”

music videos are promotional tool. Something that helps a band sell more albums, get more airplay, and hopefully, more people to their shows.

What EMI is trying to do is akin to making someone purchase the ability to watch a movie trailer (note my use of “the ability,” as even though you purchased it, you don’t own it). Screw that, I just won’t watch the trailer. I don’t see why people would pay to watch a promotional video, especially as you note, bands do it for free on their websites

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9075/comment-page-1#comment-47934 Reader's Write Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:58:52 +0000 #comment-47934 Thus, Thomas Ryan, EMI Music's svp of digital and mobile strategy, hopes "commercial relationships" with YouTube, et al, "will help us remove infringing material that someone uploaded and we're not being compensated for," says the story. Yet you can go onto the bands website and stream their videos for nothing... what exactly are they not being compensated for???? Thus, Thomas Ryan, EMI Music’s svp of digital and mobile strategy, hopes “commercial relationships” with YouTube, et al, “will help us remove infringing material that someone uploaded and we’re not being compensated for,” says the story.

Yet you can go onto the bands website and stream their videos for nothing… what exactly are they not being compensated for????

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