And now this: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/warner-pulls-mu.html
I can just imagine a bunch of executives trying to figure out how to squeeze more money from this “New Media” thing, and since it’s not the kind of guarantees they’re used to from the coked up 80s, they get all nostalgic, and are like “Fuck New Media! It ain’t gonna change us, so it’s up to use to change IT!”
Meanwhile everyone else seems to think Rock Band/Guitar Hero and YouTube is a pretty good way to get your stuff out there. It certainly results in more music sales as far as Rock Band/Guitar Hero goes.
Also, hilariously, it looks like most of the blathering masses are blaming YouTube for removing the videos. Nice try – seeing as other music labels seem to think millions of hits generates revenue in other streams and have no problems with the ad revenue YouTube sends their way (According to Universal, it’s “tens of millions“, and given Warner’s past actions, I’m putting the blame solely on Warner for gettin’ all dem SLIPKNOT VIDEOZ DELETTETD!
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Well, Warner also said they wanted to try to create a site with the other studios for music videos in the vein of Hulu. While I agree that they are definitely stupid for what they’re doing, I’m still curious to see what kind of a site they come up with. I can’t speak for everyone, but I personally think Hulu turned out to be BRILLIANT, and I definitely use it to watch stuff online.
While it’s definitely dumb to be pulling the content off YouTube, I do think that some of these music videos can be perfected in ways that YouTube will never be the right medium for.