Quote from: Eh... on October 07, 2021, 03:18:11 PM
Quote from: Annie on October 07, 2021, 10:48:57 AM
Ok I will say: Big tech are a problem. We have seen what happened with Facebook, Whatsapp & Instagram shutting down at the same time because of an error. I don't know if you guys followed Congress this week but the story about algorithms and rabbit holes is definitely something to worry about. Same with Spotify..they are the biggest music streaming app and have most of the power when it comes to how much they pay artists. They have 100 million dollar deals with podcast hosts but don't come anywhere near the rates radio used to have.
In this case YouTube has the power because there are no other popular video sharing platforms...R Kelly agreed to the terms and conditions before using it, so they are not going to be responsible for any damages and with this conviction they have the right to throw people off their platform. There have been content creators who don't make money from ads anymore because of one scandal. So why shouldn't Bert be treated like any other user? His music is still on there, in a way he should feel happy they didn't delete everything.
I agree but YouTube is the biggest music streaming service and video hosting service. Spotify just has the most paying users, but YouTube is still the most used service for music. YouTube really has a hold on everything at this point though, there are other video hosting sites but the majority of people never use them or never even heard of them.
This entire situation is dumb though, they could've just demonetized his account instead of deleting the videos off the site especially since all his music can still be found and streamed on there.
i don't think the move was made in an effort to take his music down completely
It's more about enforcing their policy that's against allowing certain USERS to have active channels on their platform
Which to me makes sense - they did the right thing IMO by waiting til an actual conviction was made .
It's easier for them to explain why his music is still
On YouTube which is uploaded by other users ... but harder for them to justify allowing him to keep an account when their policies explicitly state he shouldn't have one .