29.01.2015 - 11:43 [ Boing Boing ]

Google strong-arms indie musicians into accepting brutal, crowdfunding-killing deal for streaming service

Google is launching a new, Youtube-branded streaming music service, with the cooperation of the Big Four labels, who got to negotiate the terms of their participation — unlike the indie musicians, who have been told that they will be exiled from Youtube altogether unless they make it their most-favored-nation distribution service, without the possibility of holding back tracks for backers on services like Kickstarter or Patreon.