YouTube - End of music videos for UK. Blocking starts 6pm, Mon 9th March!

redmandarin

Better listen to your favourite You Tube music videos before its too late!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm

YouTube is blocking all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Right Society (PRS). Thousands of videos will be unavailable to YouTube users from later on Monday.

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zenseeker

So? Watch them on one of the many music channels instead :rolleyes:

Or, if you have Virgin cable, you can watch a vast number of new and old videos for free on Music on Demand.

redmandarin

What do you mean, so?

It's bad news for UK users! I don't have Virgin cable - and even if I did, it is not a free service!

purplebutterfly

zenseeker wrote: »

So? Watch them on one of the many music channels instead :rolleyes:

Or, if you have Virgin cable, you can watch a vast number of new and old videos for free on Music on Demand.

Some of us don't have "the many music channels" or Virgin cable. I don't feel that the sarcastic rolling of eyes there was at all called for.

I use YouTube a lot to watch music videos - even just to listen to the tracks - this is a real blow for me and many other people who can't afford fancy tv packages.

Thanks for the heads up, redmandarin

Antispam

You may be able to use it through the many proxy web sites out there I assume they will be filtering known UK IP addresses

http://www.tech-faq.com/proxy.shtml

pavlovs_dog

for those of you who like listening to music for free online check out spotify, fab bit of software.

you register and download a widget to your PC which then allows you to listen to music streamed free over the internet. Some artists are not available due to licensing issues, but i've never struggled to find something to listen to. the only small 'snag' is that you have to listen to an advert once every 20 minutes or so, althlough you can pay for a premium account which is ad-free should you wish

SwissToni_2

If you use Firefox try using a proxy addon like Foxy Proxy. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2464

betty_swollox_2

purplebutterfly wrote: »

Some of us don't have "the many music channels" or Virgin cable. I don't feel that the sarcastic rolling of eyes there was at all called for.

I use YouTube a lot to watch music videos - even just to listen to the tracks - this is a real blow for me and many other people who can't afford fancy tv packages.

Thanks for the heads up, redmandarin

I agree with Purplebutterfly, this is such a shame, me and my lot are going to miss it

scat

bad news for me - I use the download helper addon for firefox to put therse videos on my ipod all the time.

ravernoloo

I agree with purplebtterfly too, not everyone has music channels and since when do you get to chopose what song you want to listen to or watch on a music channel? I usually use youtube to decide which karaoke songs im going to sing and sing along to them, it is a real shame, youtube wont be the same.

redmandarin

I have to admit that I'm probably disproportionately upset by this! It's the unfairness of it! The rest of the world will still have this facility, but not those of us in the UK! Why does it seem that people in the UK always get the $*** end of everything? :sad: