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Universal Music Group and YouTube join to form Vevo.com

Apr 11, 2009, 7:30pm

For the last few months YouTube has been just another name being thrown around as a big, bad company involved in copyright scandals. Back in March, Universal Music Group chief Doug Morris stated that sites like YouTube and Myspace "are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars." Come on, seriously? Are major labels really that money hungry for every bottom dollar that they're willing to limit their artist's exposure to potential new fans? God forbid they give access to view music videos without proper compensation to record labels. I can't tell you how many times I've used [...]

Artist: Beast
Title: Microcyte
Link Text: Beast - Microcyte
File Name: Beast - Microcyte.mp3
Bitrate: 129 kbps
Year: 2008

Artist: K-Os
Title: Burning Bridges
Link Text: K-os - Burning Bridges
File Name: K os - Burning Bridges.mp3
Year: 2009

Artist: Sigur Ros
Title: Hoppipolla
Link Text: Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
File Name: Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla.mp3
Bitrate: 217 kbps
Year: 2009

Artists: BEAST, K-OS, Sigur R

Tags: Sigur Ros, KOS, Beast

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