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The Great Disappointment: Tidal Highlights YouTube’s Moral Hazard for All the World to See
Beyonce released “Die With You” on Tidal as an exclusive. Everyone at YouTube knows that it was intended to be an exclusive just like everyone at YouTube knows that YouTube could keep the track from being uploaded to YouTube if YouTube wanted to do that.
YouTube has worked hard at getting the world to accept the concept of “user generated content” as some kind of great cultural event–even, when like “Die With You”, there isn’t anything particularly “user generated” about it, unless you call a one-to-one rip of Beyonce’s track that was distributed in clear violation of Beyonce’s rights “user generated”.
The Great Disappointment: Tidal Highlights YouTube’s Moral Hazard for All the World to See
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