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Old 12-28-2012, 06:40 PM   #421 (permalink)
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Not exactly a news story, and I can actually believe it, but WOW:

YouTube Kills Billions of Video Views Faked By Music Industry

I guess they were just getting back at us...
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Old 12-28-2012, 08:25 PM   #422 (permalink)
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Not exactly a news story, and I can actually believe it, but WOW:

YouTube Kills Billions of Video Views Faked By Music Industry

I guess they were just getting back at us...
That... is really weird. Like, why even bother?
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Old 12-28-2012, 09:28 PM   #423 (permalink)
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That... is really weird. Like, why even bother?
Because more youtube hits = money. This is because advertisers pay popular channel owners to advertise on those channels.

Universal, Sony, and RCA want/need money just like everyone else.
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Old 12-28-2012, 09:36 PM   #424 (permalink)
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Because more youtube hits = money. This is because advertisers pay popular channel owners to advertise on those channels.

Universal, Sony, and RCA want/need money just like everyone else.
Ah, that makes sense. I wonder if it was worth it, now that they've gotten in trouble.
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Ah, that makes sense. I wonder if it was worth it, now that they've gotten in trouble.
They probably don't have much to lose since they're quickly becoming irrelevant and obsolete and because everybody just steals their product and shares it online anyway.
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Old 12-28-2012, 09:41 PM   #426 (permalink)
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They probably don't have much to lose since they're quickly becoming irrelevant and obsolete and because everybody just steals their product and shares it online anyway.
Good point. Thanks, Internet!
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Old 12-29-2012, 10:07 AM   #427 (permalink)
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Not really that strange since they buy albums from their own artists to make them go platinum, right? Oh and, I found this on the same page:

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Old 12-29-2012, 12:02 PM   #428 (permalink)
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Not exactly a news story, and I can actually believe it, but WOW:

YouTube Kills Billions of Video Views Faked By Music Industry

I guess they were just getting back at us...
Tom needs to learn how to count...

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Sony/BMG's was hit the hardest with views dropping from a total of more than 850 million to just 2.3 million. RCA declined by 159 million views to a total of 120 million. Universal lost more than 1 billion views and now stands below 6 billion.
..or am I missing something?
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Old 12-29-2012, 03:17 PM   #429 (permalink)
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..or am I missing something?
They were hit the hardest because they had the largest percentage of views deleted.
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Old 12-29-2012, 05:19 PM   #430 (permalink)
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They were hit the hardest because they had the largest percentage of views deleted.
I get that, but you'd think that getting slapped in the face 1 billion times is more than 847.7 million in the real world... oh yeah... this is virtual.

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