IMPORTANT: Unite Against WMG

[Astral Echo]

Important Announcment to all Youtube Users and all that this may concern!

The Warner Music Group are taking control of Youtube, limiting our use of this great site. WMG are muting our videos and stopping cover singers, fan video artists and music video makers from posting their work on Youtube.

How is that fair?

They are not pyhsically sharing any music, which isn't illegal. No one is claiming the music are their own and no one making their videos for profit. It's a joke how they're allowed to control our use of YT and it's not fair.

We need to take a stand now.

It's effecting many Youtubers and this needs stamping out before it takes over the whole community.
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Get this video as popular as possible, get it on the first page and get it noticed! WMG need to go before they ruin Youtube. If they carry on, Youtube won't be the site it is today by the end of the year, they will completely transform Youtube into something ugly!

We can't let that happen!
UNIT AGAINST WMG!

This is serious, if action isn't taken we will slowly see the demise of Youtube with in the next year. You'll no longer be able to make fan videos, music videos or cover songs vocally or instrumentally. WMG is ruining Youtube, I've suffered it first hand and it's a not a nice feeling. Imagine not being able to see Charmed Alternate Credits, fanmade Music Videos, trailers etc...

Imagine not being able to get your work see any longer?

Even if your not convinced this will work, please try. Watch it, rate it, comment it and share it at least. Please. Don't let Youtube down. The more popular this video gets, the more likely we'll get heared, get this to the front page. We need to, to save Youtube.

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[Xenith]

Pretty sure Charmed actually falls under Viacom, which has already sued Google to have their stuff removed once. (Happened last March - basically they removed all the direct viacom stuff and whatever movies/shows were posted as wholes leaveing most of the true fan stuff alone). Google did, which along with the nice sum of cash Google paid and the users info list that who knows what nefarious purpose it will be used for...

WMG stuff has actually only been legal for the last 2 years, so really this isn't nearly as big of a deal as people think it is. It's kind of like youtube going back to it's napster like roots in a way, other than having pulled all their direct WMG content offerings, and probably about 5% of fan videos just to be dicks... Enforcement otherwise by Google has been lax at best, just like old school youtube.

[Astral Echo]

No fan videos are being posted. They can't. I haven't found a way around it anyway. I've got like three I want to share but can't.

And though it does seem like a losing battle, I'd like to try!

[PhoenyxAngel]

I am not saying anything against you, but usually these things are fake. I see things like this all the time that are made up chain letters talking about so and so company is taking over this, or they are closing down that. I've seen it on Myspace and Facebook, etc. I really don't think this is legit.

Again, I'm not saying anything against you and maybe I'm wrong but I really don't think the owner(s) of Youtube is going to allow this.

[Astral Echo]

I don't understand. This is perfectly legit, I made the video myself. If your referring to WMG, they're legit too, I had two videos removed in the last two weeks.

[Drama]

Youtube IS cracking down and removing vids. They're insane. My friend Brittany (The Original P3) moved her vids somewhere else, or will move.

[Astral Echo]

I know, they never should of sold to Google. It's become Moneytube!

[Drama]

What is the point of youtube if people can't post VIDEOS? vlogs? ew. Hey, guess what. I don't care about your online video rants.

[Astral Echo]

Um...pardon?

[Drama]

sorry. sarcasm.

[Lexi]

I've seen this happening to videos when I've been going through them. I had one removed completely because of copyright. It does my head in. Like has already been said, we're not making any money from them, we're just sharing them for fun. Grrr......