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Warner to create (semi) comprehensive music video website
Warner Music is working with Premium TV to create an online site featuring the record label's entire music video library. The service will be supported by advertising, and the videos will be available to stream for free. You'll be able to download videos for a fee.While you can currently access some Warner content from the label's website, the deal would include Warner's entire library, plus previously unseen content.
As CD sales continue to decline and online video continues to grow in popularity, the move seems to make sense. But most music fans don't really associate artists with the labels they're on. In other words, even if Warner posts its complete catalog, there's a good chance you wont' find the artist you're looking for on Warner's site.
It'll be hard to compete with existing sites such as YouTube or MTV's Overdrive that have videos from multiple labels.
[via I4U News]
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Subscribe to commentsthebigfinch4991Jun 3rd 2007 12:00AM
This is a HUGE advancement. Finally we can download music videos for FREE. I feel it's ridiculous to pay for them and for TV shows. The networks and the industry make enough from advertising for the tv shows, and the music videos are essentially promotions for the artists. It's like paying to see an advertisement!
PrsRobsterMay 31st 2007 6:34PM
@1, The service only streams for free. But if you want you can download from Youtube which is what I do. Just go to Google and search for "Save Flash Video". Click on the cnet link. You can even download SUPER which is the biggest free converison tool, and rip the sound out of the video!
JamesJun 1st 2007 10:01PM
Yeah, I always get a chuckle when I read stuff like "the videos will be available to stream for free. You'll be able to download videos for a fee.", where techno-illiterate managers fail to understand that BITS ARE BITS, and that streaming *is* downloading. I suppose they might be DRMed to discourage re-playing the stream content, but we all know how well that works...