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YouTube began removing videos with music from Warner Music Group's stable of artists this weekend after royalty renegotiations between the two companies broke down. WMG, the first music label to climb into bed with YouTube and lend the video publishing site an air of legitimacy, is now the first to roll out. The two companies …

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  1. bobbles31
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    Bee on a nettle?

    This is one of those bee on a nettle situations, someone is going to get stung and I'm not particularly fussed which.

    However, its nice to see that finally the music industry have run into someone that won't be bullied. RIA, Warner and all the other pirates have been making this kind of move on radio stations for years. Its good to see them not getting away with it against Google.

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  2. Simon Buttress

    Perhaps music isn't actually worth what WGM think it is

    Basically.

    This is what happens when a good idea (youtube) gets "monetized" and greedy pigs start pushing in to the trough.....oink oink oink

    On a sidenote, I wish a painful death on the person that invented the word monetized.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    so what i see here is a win-win

    Video gets pulled, the internet gets rid of shite. win-win for us all.

    Paris, 'cuz her videos aren't controlled by warner.

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