The blogosphere is already buzzing with opinions and reactions to today's announcement by YouTube that it's pulling thousands of music videos from its UK site, due to a breakdown in negotiations with licensing body PRS for Music.We've been all over the story, giving our opinion and republishing the statements made by both sides in the dispute. There's no shortage of other opinions online though: we'll be gathering them in this post, which we'll update as the night and tomorrow morning roll on.Mark Mulligan, Forrester Research (link)“UK consumers needn’t worry too much. The music videos will be back. Once the grandstanding is over both parties will hit upon a compromise. Music video is too important to YouTube not to reach an agreement, just as YouTube is too important a revenue stream for PRS. Until they do UK music fans have plenty of alternatives, such as Daily Motion and of course file sharing networks. And there’s very strong reason why the labels, PRS and even YouTube don’t want YouTube’s loss to be Bit Torrent’s gain.”Lionel Laurent, Forbes (link)“It still looks as though Google is determined to win this fight, even though it can't play official content without a license from the songwriters [...]
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