![]() The numbers – and legality – around how many people use third-party websites to convert the audio from YouTube’s music videos to mp3 files remain murky. The Nielsen researchers polled 3,000 teenagers, only 17 percent of whom admitted to using illegal file-sharing sites. The problem for those companies is that YouTube is more difficult to monetize than licensing songs to the radio, and diligent music fans have figured out how to save songs free of charge from the video site. ![]() ![]() After Napster came Limewire and Kazaa, both of which were shut down, but record companies could now have a much tougher fight on their hands with YouTube.Ī Nielsen study published in August found that more young people discover new music on YouTube than by listening to the radio or by paying for music on iTunes, according to the Guardian. YouTubeįew would have predicted that more than decade after Metallica took Napster to court to fight copyright infringement, the RIAA would still be scrambling to minimize technology’s impact on its profit losses. A Brazilian judge at an elections court this week ordered the arrest of Fabio Jose Silva Coelho, Google’s top executive in that country, for the company’s failure to take down YouTube videos that are allegedly slandering a local mayoral candidate. ![]()
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