We all know that Google says YouTube is defeating television and they’ve got the user generated content to prove it–including how to shoot crack and other illegal drugs.
#YTMA: YouTube Music Awards You’ll Never See: RU486, DIY Abortions, Steroids and Human Growth Hormone
Google paid a fine of $500,000,000 of the stockholders’ money to keep their senior management team from being indicted for violations of the Controlled Substances Act. This fine followed a multi-year sting operation by the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service and the Food and Drug Administration that proved that Google was complicit in the sale of a variety of prescription drugs without a prescription including the abortion drug RU486, steroids and Human Growth Hormone.
RU486 not only is a drug that requires a prescription, but it also is to be administered under a doctor’s supervision. According to Planned Parenthood, the drug is intended for women who are pregnant (different than the “morning after” pill) and:
It is administered under the supervision of a physician with appropriate follow up to assure completion of the abortion.
It is not available from a pharmacy
And what might be the demographic of the audience that these drug dealers are trying to reach? Remember–this is not some rogue site on the Internet, this is YouTube. 100% within Google’s control.
So here are some music videos that won’t be part of the YouTube Music Awards:
1. Do You Need a Prescription for RU 486?
2. DIY: Medical Abortion (another YouTube “how to” video to self-administer RU486)
3. Easy At Home Abortions: This one appears to be a pro-life video of a woman telling her story with captions linking to “a cheap and even safer way to abort”
4. Buy Steroids Online
5. Buy HGH: Where to Buy HGH?
T Bone Burnett vs. Silicon Valley: ‘We Should Go Up There With Pitchforks and Torches’ | THR
The entire infrastructure that supported the world of music for a century has been dismantled, and in its place we’ve got these little things, these little handheld devices. The worldwide web was supposed to give everybody access and democratize everything. It was supposed to create a level field and increase the middle class and everybody had more access and more information. But now anybody can say anything and nobody cares. This is the problem of ubiquitous data.
And what’s happened in reality is that the power’s been consolidated in very, very few companies, and the middle class of musicians really has just been wiped out. I mean, the Internet has been an honest-to-God con.
READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:
http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/t-bone-burnett-silicon-valley-652114
#YTMA: YouTube Music Awards You’ll Never See: Jihadi Recruiting Videos
YouTube is a very popular communications medium to recruit jihadis and to distribute news of the jihad. Here’s a few examples:
1. Equip a Fighter This Ramadan
2. Jihadi Attack on Ship in Suez Canal
3. Execution of Syrians in Town Square by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (al Qaeda in Iraq)
4. Khost CIA Suicide Bomber is on Tape with Leader of Taliban in Pakistan
Hakeemullah Mehsud (left), the Leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, and Humam Khalil Muhammed Abu Mulal al Balawi (right), the suicide bomber who carried out the attack at Combat Outpost Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan that was a plot point in Zero Dark Thirty. Here’s a link to the video but you’ll see that it’s been made “private” courtesy of YouTube.
5. Armstrong and Miller Martyrdom Video
and on a lighter note…
#YTMA: YouTube Music Video Awards You’ll Never See: Best Counterfeit Steroid Video!
YouTube is hosting its first YouTube Music Video Awards–because, you know, YouTube is just like television. According to Google’s Eric Schmidt, “YouTube Has Already Defeated Television,” and just to prove it YouTube is hosting its own music video awards to compete with the Grammys.
But YouTube is actually nothing like television–television has “standards and practices” that keep things on the rails. Not YouTube.
We’d like to show you some videos that YouTube would probably not have you know anything about.
Let’s start with the nominees for “Best Counterfeit Steroid Video”.
“BUY STEROIDS” is a hugely popular search on YouTube! And no flags!
And the nominees are:
1. Buy Genuine Steroids! Featuring “Deep Enough” by The Corrs
2. Buy Steriods Canada, Featuring Sunnyside by Leftover Cuties
3. Steroids Testosterone propinate, Equipoise, Sustanon 250, Nolvadex by Mex2You
4. How I Inject Testosterone and Overcome Anxiety (Start to Finish) – Testosterone Replacement Therapy
Brought to you by Merck and Ads by Google
Benefits and Risks of Testosterone Replacement Therapy from the National Institutes of Health
5. HCG Diet (Human chorionic gonadotropin) How to Mix Your HCG 5000 (Intramuscular)
Mayo Clinic: Does the HCG diet work — and is it safe?
Answer from Jennifer K. Nelson, R.D., L.D.
No on both counts. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised consumers to steer clear of over-the-counter weight-loss products that contain HCG.
THIS IS A SPOOF! THE VIDEOS ARE REAL BUT WE DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU DO ANYTHING OR BUY ANYTHING PORTRAYED IN THE VIDEOS. THESE DRUGS ARE SUBJECT TO FDA WARNINGS (NOT TO MENTION THE GOOGLE NONPROSECUTION AGREEMENT AND $500,000,000 FINE)
The Recording Industry: Fiddling while Rome burns. | AdLand
Here come the YouTube Music Awards. YouTube pays artists less per play than Spotify and YouTube get an awards show with artists support. We get what we deserve?
In terms of artists getting their royalties fucked so royally, no one beats Big Tech. The money that should be distributed to musicians is going to google or to ad-supported pirate sites rather than the content creators themselves.
Yet Big Tech is doing what the recording industry can’t. In terms of innovation, the recording industry’s been asleep as the wheel since Napster first rolled out.
READ THE FULL POST AT ADLAND:
http://adland.tv/node/156185#qmSjKtWGAhJ3HzaA.99
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YouTube Shares Ad Revenue With Musicians, But Does It Add Up? | NPR
Philip Pullman: illegal downloading is ‘moral squalor’ | The Guardian UK
Bestselling author says web piracy is akin to ‘reaching into someone’s pocket and taking their wallet’
Illegal downloading is a kind of “moral squalor” and theft as much as reaching in to someone’s pocket and stealing their wallet is theft, the author Philip Pullman will say this week.
In an article for Index on Censorship, Pullman, who is president of the Society of Authors, makes a robust defence of copyright laws. He is withering about internet users who think it is OK to download music or books without paying for them.
“The technical brilliance is so dazzling that people can’t see the moral squalor of what they’re doing,” he writes. “It is outrageous that anyone can steal an artist’s work and get away with it. It is theft, as surely as reaching into someone’s pocket and taking their wallet is theft.”
His article comes after music industry leaders met David Cameron in Downing Street last Thursday where the issue of web piracy was discussed.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/15/philip-pullman-illegal-downloading-theft
Real Censorship | nycRUEN
During the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), critics of the legislation portrayed its process of identifying foreign black market domains and then blocking them from gaining easy profits from, and access to, the US online audience, as “censorship” — full stop.
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It bothers me that representatives from Google or the EFF, Reddit, etc. are so quick to lump in the attempt to protect artists rights with the political censorship of China or Iran. It is entitlement of the privileged at its worst and demonstrates to me how desperate some people are to excuse freeloading by any means necessary. But, the wonders of technology simply do not excuse clear cases of exploitation.
READ THE FULL POST AT nycRUEN:
http://nycruen.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/real-censorship/
YouTube’s Copyright Problem | Plagiarism Today
Bottom Line
If YouTube is going to be more than a destination for watching content and a key part of where producers and others go to post their content, it needs to solve its copyright problem, meaning that it is both a place original expression can thrive and a place pirated and infringing content is kept at bay.
While ContentID and YouTube’s rules have done a decent job in the majority of cases, it doesn’t really feel as if YouTube is building on stable ground in either direction.
YouTube has to do more to both protect fair use and legitimate commentary/criticism while doing more to prevent illegal material from taking home on the service. Those two ideas are not in opposition to one another, though many would let you believe they are.
READ THE FULL STORY AT PLAGIARISM TODAY:
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2013/10/23/youtubes-copyright-problem/
Help for New Musicians Chasing Cash | BBC UK
With digital downloads, falling album sales and rampant piracy, what’s it like trying to establish yourself as a new performer in today’s troubled music industry?
Well, in the words of one UK music business professional: “It’s like trying to create a hurricane by running around a field in circles.”
Artists can no longer depend on labels to finance their projects and invest in building their careers. Long demonized, it appears the true value of investment capital, expertise and contracts are coming into focus for today’s new artists.
In her guide – entitled Easy Money? – Ms Harris identifies six main sources of money for music projects:
- grants
- friends and family
- crowdfunding
- sponsorship
- debt
- investment
She says that during her 15 years in the music industry, it has “moved from an internal funding model to having to go to external sources” for cash to kick-start projects.
Normally, she says, musicians are looking for about £5,000 to £10,000 to fund a specific project, such as a record or live appearances.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE AT THE BBC UK:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24249918




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