YouTube Ends Music Videos In Germany

New York Times:

BERLIN -- YouTube has stopped showing music videos in Germany as a dispute over royalty payments in Europe spreads.

On Tuesday night, YouTube, a unit of Google, began blocking music videos in Germany after the expiration of its 17-month contract with GEMA, an agency representing songwriters, composers and music publishers. YouTube made a similar move three weeks ago in Britain after a contract expired there.

Under the old agreement, Google had agreed to pay a set fee to GEMA for every streamed music video. Neither party would disclose the previous payment amount.

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Comments

[Thingol]

05:24 AM on 04/05/2009

I am German, we all use proxies and its done.^^

[AlexFTW]

10:02 AM on 04/04/2009

Ich bin pouty now!

[AndThenOneDay]

06:53 AM on 04/05/2009

"Hah!" (a la Matthews)

[Brett1981]

03:50 PM on 04/03/2009

How could they do that to fraulein?!

[LittlePurpleUSA]

02:17 PM on 04/03/2009

Never mind the story. Who's the girl in the pic? SAUCE NOW!

[OrganOfThought]

11:35 PM on 04/05/2009

seriously

[AndThenOneDay]

02:03 PM on 04/03/2009

Who's the girl? If she's not happy, I'm not happy.

[Mechagumby]

08:02 PM on 04/05/2009

I'm guessing a soccer fan from last year's Eurocup.

[Khirad]

12:44 PM on 04/03/2009

This is good news in stemming the spread of crap like Tokyo Hotel, bad news for Die Totenhosen, Einstürzende Neubauten, KMFDM, Rammstein, etc. I suppose "Life Isn't Easy in Germany again!" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3mYAGehBFo&feature=related

[Hirnlego]

12:39 PM on 04/03/2009

scheisse

[nettyspagetti]

07:04 PM on 04/04/2009

ver dammt

[AngieMom57]

12:29 PM on 04/03/2009

Music blocked? Where's the love?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yAO-QCSWA