14 Percent of YouTube Audio Taken Away By WMG?
I stumbled on a YouTube video with the alert: “This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled.”
After I saw that, I wondered just how many YouTube videos had the same thing happen. So I did some googleing to try to find out. First, I searched:
GoogleSearch: “This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled.” site:youtube.com
This returned 260,000 results. Keep in mind that the almighty Google search engine does not index every website, nor, I suppose, YouTube video.
Next, I searched for something that I think brings up all YouTube videos:
GoogleSearch: site:youtube.com “Video Responses:” “Text Comments:”
This returned 1,760,000 results.
If we assume that all videos are indexed randomly, then we can take the WMG audio killed videos (260,000) over the total videos (1,760,000) and get a proportion of WMG audio take down videos. This is roughly 14 percent.
This means that 14% of YouTube videos have no audio because of a WMG audio take down.
What do you think? Does this surprise you? Is my reasoning sound?
I think Youtube is fully indexed by Google as it is a google website now.
However, that is besides the point that i hate WMG
justanotherthinker
January 28, 2009 at 5:14 pm
But a seven figure amount of YouTube videos has to be too low.
rhemalinder
January 28, 2009 at 6:16 pm
WMG owns a majority share of Rhino, Elektra, Atlantic and Roadrunner. I would guess before long every major signed act will be gone from youtube.
Metallica and Shinedown took down their videos and moved them to their own websites.
While I don’t agree with WMG’s tactics, I think they need to create their own website where people can watch these videos. Youtube has replaced MTV as a source for new music. Without it, It wont be easy to see the latest music videos out there.
Rob Rockitt
January 29, 2009 at 1:11 am
Tis a shame YouTube + Google + all their endless amounts of money can’t come up with some sort of deal to allow people to use low-quality versions of their music. If they only realized, everybody using their music is a form of FREE advertisement… in fact WMG should almost be paying YouTube to allow content creators to use the music, especially when videos get thousands of hits, and as long as they list where the music comes from, i’m sure they’re selling a lot more MP3s/CDs due to watching a video and discovering great music….
Or maybe YouTube should buddy up with someone like Jamendo (or some other CC-Creative Commons music services) to offer alternatives…
glenneroo
April 5, 2009 at 8:14 am
ur sooooo right omg were not doing nothing wrong with there music n it makes me mad on how they let other music on there but not like 30h!3 for example n my video is really good but they let others vids on i dont understand i cut a part of the song out but still they take it off n also they should let it on were advertising there song if no 1 ever heard it before they can from our vid for youtube n like it n buy it basically it gives them more pubblishity
alexa
June 8, 2009 at 7:45 pm
They must have their act together. My video was strictly for fun and sharing, and the background audio was for effect. So now I need to go and hire a writer and band the next time. Fun is getting expensive!!!
Frank M
April 6, 2009 at 9:45 am
Exactly, i’d venture to guess that 99.99% of YouTube videos with copyrighted music are just for fun, so in the end they’re just shooting themselves in the foot…
IMO there needs to be a revolution with alternative music sources. Everyone has to start using good FREE music instead (CC, MySpace, etc) until the WMG comes crawling back begging that we use “their” music again.
glenneroo
April 6, 2009 at 9:52 am
My friend on Facebook shared this link and I’m not dissapointed at all that I came here.
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April 15, 2009 at 9:37 am
Just use a non-WMG song. I prefer using some of the hot new chinese, Japanese or SKorean artists, videogame music (preferably Japanese), etc. WMG can have their American crap. Ill stick to Asian music tyvm.
LOL
April 17, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I would be happy to pay a small fee for each track I use if they would leave my Youtube vids alone.
I only used a portion of a WMG track but my video was muted after about a week, all my hard work has been ruined……so pissed off!!
RobotOnLine
May 4, 2009 at 12:10 pm
WMG paid for the rights. If you wrote, produced, and sweated to finally have a hit song you would want to control how it is used and what to charge. doesn’t matter if it is right or wrong it is a matter of controlling their property. If you owned a pond and people fish at that pond you would at least expect for them to have permission to use it.
GuySmalley
May 9, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Not that I don’t understand where you’re coming from (or rather that you understand where Warner is coming from), but those are entirely different cases. WMG loses nothing by allowing amateur videographers to use music they enjoy – or believe makes the proper statement – in works of art that they are creating. Any loss in profit would be extremely negligible (if extant), and would affect no one but already overpaid executives, people who put no work or sweat into the music. If an artist contacted me and requested that I do NOT use their art within my own works, I could understand, but when greedy media conglomerate CEOs – not artists at all – tell their lawyers to get every instance of their “product” removed from the creative works of individuals (or “consumers” as they call us), that is something I have a problem with.
Rain
May 21, 2009 at 6:19 pm
WMG is pathetic and deserves to die. They audioswitch on youtube doesnt even give you many songs to pick from, let alone find the one you used. Why have Windows movie maker installed already on your computer if you are not allowed to add soundtracks to it for youtube . . .
Pathetic
May 21, 2009 at 5:58 pm
exuaclty is there any way to make like starstruck y 30h!3 go on our youtube acccount or the songs youtube bands or w.e im not very good with this audio thing its new to me n im trying to find a way for it to work cuz i watch other pppls vids n they can make music vids wtf n i cant =/
alexa
June 8, 2009 at 7:51 pm
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May 22, 2009 at 2:00 pm
this is stupid. video with no sound because of wmg. before you know it. you tube will be gone to. it time to get rid of the internet if everything we do has copy right laws stuck to it.
lynn
June 8, 2009 at 12:15 am
I can understand muting the audio on a video, but only IF I could record a complete, clean copy of a copyrighted work. WMG and YouTube have taken this to a level totally beyond reason. To mute a video that contains 30 seconds of a song, or someone ranting about some subject and there was music playing in the background. I mean, come on, of what value is the audio to anybody? Like someone’s gonna download/copy the audio with someone talking in the foreground? WTF? Worse yet, they deleted a video of a girl playing piano and singing ‘Winter Wonderland’. It’s beginning to look like Earth really is the insane asylum of the universe.
awizardalso
September 7, 2009 at 1:58 am