2009/3/9

British YouTube users to watch music video banned

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March 10 message, Google's online video website YouTube announced Monday, as Britain can not compete with music copyright organizations PRS tax agreement, YouTube will be banned from UK users view the site on the music video. YouTube Monday in a blog article said, PRS royalties are required before the agreement provides a "lot of times," "the price we are unbearable, if we compromise, which means that users click to play every time, we losses will be no small sum of money. "

It is reported that this case is the relationship between YouTube and the music industry a signal to nervous, but also demonstrate its control of costs, profit determination.

YouTube Europe, the Middle East and Africa operations, director of video partnerships Patrick Walker (Patrick Walker) said, "We and the PRS for Music of the negotiations has been going on for a very long time, the two sides remained in the negotiations, the United Kingdom prohibit users watch music videos are a 'painful decision'. "

PRS but give a different argument, claiming that Google's statement it was shocked. The agency CEO Steve Porter (Steve Porter) said, "We learned this afternoon received a Google to take these radical means, which shocked us."

PRS said in a statement, which represents consumers and songwriter, on YouTube's practices express "outrage", "Google informed us that this measure aims to reduce the cost with them closely related to the right to tax costs, but it neglects the fact that YouTube video of the substantial traffic growth. "

PRS for Music's statement pointed out that Google on one quarter revenue reached 5.7 billion U.S. dollars, with the music industry's rapid decline in revenue was in sharp contrast. Some rights reserved person, YouTube should pay higher royalties, or divided into more ad revenue, because they had watched the music video at the Internet continues to grow.

It is, YouTube will be Monday evening local time, the United Kingdom the United Kingdom ban on its Web site users watch music video content

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