That GOOGLE makes a fortune by putting people through the hoops of DMCA's and "Chilling Effects" humiliation while they laugh all the way to the bank?
YOUTUBE, according to those dull business newspapers, "is expected to sell an estimated $7.2 billion in advertising this year, though Google has never disclosed how much revenue flows through YouTube."
Yes, there you are. GOOGLE is the Scientology of the Internet. They are a huge, nefarious site run by secretive drones and perverted CEO's and they hide in hives and steal, steal, steal.
Here's a guy who is pissed OFF about it:
Yeah, I know, them Kikes and Niggas is "ruining the fun." They're gonna take down all the FREEEEEEEEEEEE muuuuuuuuuusic unless THEY get a share, too.
Is it any surprise that when we're talking about big stakes profits, there's all this lying and hiding and bloodthirsty backstabbing?
Oh, it's SO simple for the assholes like Seniormole and Hans and Mephisto and the rest of the shit-for-brains amateurs out there. It's "Oh, why don't they let us alone? We all know the artists are making a fortune. It's a kerfuffle! It's fussing! We don't want to know! Don't ruin OUR fun!"
The big deal, years ago, was that the Internet was Robin Hood, liberating music (and movies, and porn and everything else) from the greedheads. Only the situation remains the same. The big stars don't make ALL the money they should, and everyone else...gets screwed completely. Which is why TV is shit, books are shit, and music and movies are shit. It's not worth a writer's time anymore. The talent has disappeared because there's no way to make a living. Everyone's busy being exhausted by a DAY JOB.
Worst of all, the CEO weasels of the world stick together. Universal, Sony and Warner "all have reached licensing deals with YouTube as part of its new subscription services."
You can be sure that very little of that money trickles down to the creative people who deserve it. Nah. We learned that from Spotify and Pandora, whose lame claim is "we're just starting out, we can't afford to pay anyone BUT OURSELVES."
It's pretty astonishing that Azoff has managed to carve out any slice when there's already the RIAA, ASCAP, BMI and other alphabet stoops. There's even an organization that has insisted THEY are governing podcasts, and THEY collect royalties specifically for Internet streaming. Only they never bothered to monitor YouTube and, like the rest of them, never returned calls or e-mails that pointed out sites that were abusing the artists.
Ray Davies sang about the Moneygoround, and he's probably still wondering what the fuck is going on, and still living rather modestly...while his brother Dave is in much worse financial shape, and any living members of The Kinks (or dead ones with families that should be getting royalties) are wondering how they got screwed so badly.
Nobody's watched the RIAA, ASCAP or the others, so I don't exactly have faith in Azoff either. They're all gonna take their huge percentage, cook the books, and laugh all the way to the bank. But right now, the roar of hilarity comes from all those secret hide-outs where GOOGLE offices dot the world...secret little hives that you can hardly find on a fucking Google map.
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