Can YouTube run decent music videos again?
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in streaming, MTV, music videos, Youtube on
YouTube used to be very useful and great fun. The fact that I could watch any music video that anybody decided to upload was fantastic - as well as listen to a few 80’s classics I could find out about a few bands I’d never heard before as they were related to the ones I had listened to.
However, it became slightly lame in March when it couldn’t come to agreement with PRS for Music about putting on premium music videos for the right place. After that there was little point in watching YouTube for music videos when many of the classic artists I was listening to simply weren’t there.
However, it seems that after consultation with stakeholders, independent music publishers and the wider industry, digital streaming sites will have to pay 0.085p per video, a reduction from 0.22p, which seems like a particularly large cut.
Hopefully this will be acceptable to sites such as YouTube. It’s been the time, for quite a while already, that people have rejected traditional music video avenues like MTV in favour of this type of streaming on demand.
It makes sense. For me personally its great that I don’t have to sit through crappy DJs, crappy shows and can get straight to the music I want. And considering I don’t have a TV, its the only way to watch cool music vids rather than the fluff they normally show.
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Pranksters sneak porn movies onto YouTube
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in sex video, moral, sex, funny, Youtube, Google on
Depending on your point of view, you’re going to find this either morally reprehensible, or absolutely hilarious.
As part of ‘Porn Day’, members of the 4Chan message board have claimed responsibility for uploading thousands of sexually explicit videos onto YouTube.
They managed to do this by hiding the porn with child-friendly and innocent footage of celebrities like squeaky-clean Hannah Montana, and famous virgins the Jonas brothers.
According to the BBC, many people (most likely sweet and innocent kids), started with footage of children’s videos and then started seeing adults performing hardcore sex acts.
Probably understandably, many viewers added these movies to their favourites and rated them highly.
OK - first time I read this story I couldn’t help smiling. I’m a libertarian at heart and I like a joke (especially on big corporate monoliths like Google and YouTube) and thought it was one of these rickrolling type pranks.
But then the mature old man in me kicked in and I thought maybe it wasn’t the best thing in the world for kids to flick on a Hannah Montana video and suddenly see people doing things illegal in some US states and world countries.
(Although the kid in me thought that if a tween was watching Hannah Montana or the Jonas brothers - they deserved everything they got).
Like a Warner Brothers cartoon I have an angel on my left side shaking his head and a devil on my right side going “hehehe”.
To be honest kids know about sex and need to learn about at some time - perhaps not in the way that these videos are showing - but hopefully a talk with the parents can sort out any strange thoughts they are having in their minds.
And the internet is like this - it’s wild, untamed and full of people wanting to be naughty - but kids educated and well versed in the ways of the world can hopefully navigate some of the difficulties.
I wouldn’t imagine any kids would be too corrupted by this.
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