RIAA Forces YouTube to Remove Free Guitar Lessons

[Mark Carras]

Bushido Hacks write "Is it so wrong to learn how to play the guitar? According to NPR, a record company ordered YouTube to remove videos of a man who offered to show people how to play the guitar for free. One of the songs that he taught was copyrighted, and as a result over 100 of his videos were removed from the internet. 'Since he put his Web site up last year, he has developed a long waiting list for the lessons he teaches in person. And both he and Taub say that's still the best way to learn. If someone tells Sandercoe to take down his song lessons, he says he will. But his most valuable videos are the ones that teach guitar basics -- things like strumming, scales and finger-picking. And even in the digital age, no one holds a copyright on those things.' How could this constitute as infringement if most musicians usually experiement to find something that sounds familiar?"Read more of this story (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/07/0330209&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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[tbhride]

Fuckers

[Mark Carras]

All he has to do is move to another free video host. There are now shitloads of them. This is just going to hurt YouTube and music fans.

[tbhride]

This is just a clear case of the RIAA overstepping his bounds. If I were this guy I would reupload the exact same videos minus the one that contained copyrighted material.

[Mark Carras]

This is just a clear case of the RIAA overstepping his bounds. If I were this guy I would reupload the exact same videos minus the one that contained copyrighted material.

Yeah, just the continuing saga of the RIAA being the 800 pound gorilla thrashing about while sinking in quicksand.

What's really sad is watching the band's go through the withdrawal of their addiction to the RIAA. It's like a slave owner defending the guy that whips their back to bloody everyday. Sure this sucks total ass for the band's in the short term, but in the end the artists and the fans get their music back from the ignorant corporate shitheads.