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I don't much care about music videos per se, but it's often the easiest way to hear new (to me) music. YouTube has become this generation's jukebox. Plug in a song title and artist and even if there's not an official video you'll find a lyric or a fan made something and you're done.

I mean, I have Spotify at home, but that's so loagy as to be untenable and I'm not a fan of other streaming services, so there I go.
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YouTube's corporate overlords are Google, they're evidently intent on monetizing their purchase price for the division, and they've been taking extortion lessons from Amazon, by the look of things.

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I like watching music videos at the gym, so I might use it there and watch the data usage carefully. Oh, wait, my gym is a goddamn Faraday cage. Nevermind.
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My kids love watching music videos at home over and over -- What Does the Fox Say, Let It Go, The Duck Song...

Come to think of it, having some content get removed might end up being a good thing!
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When MTV was new and played music videos, we used to turn it on during our parties -- eat, drink, get high, dance, talk over it, every once in a while, "Look at that one! Have you seen that one?" It was a great. Why not stream YouTube music videos on your TV, put together playlists for special occasions? Not everything has to be viewed on a tiny screen, in private. That said, YouTube's censorship will be great for their competitors.
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Information Superhighway Robbery, and nothing more.

Why take this open platform and change the rules so as to diminish it? Fucking profiteers. It's not like Google isn't super-fucking-rich already. I mean, have you read about the Loon project? Christ.
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I watch music videos with my daughter a lot. I stream them from youtube onto my TV using a chromecast. lots of people do this.
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Don't Be Google.
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my wife uses youtube as a jukebox/streaming audio whatever you want to call it.

no login. no subscription. turn it on. set it to play. listen to music in the background while you do whatever. . .

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Well the Financial Times article is behind a paywall.... isn't that fucking ironic?
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I'd venture to say that I watch at least an hour of music videos a day on average. But I keeps it punk, with the occasional Whitney Houston or John Mellencamp video from time to time when I feel like a throwback, so I don't know if my YouTube habits will be affected much.

YouTube has a great thing going for them. They should be careful to not fuck it up and go the way of Myspace.
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This is capitalism 101. Get big enough that people need you, then gouge like crazy. Monopolies are always the goal.

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