Dear frustrated music loving YouTube visitors – take a look at Google’s financial statement tell me they can’t share a small part of their revenue with content creators who are responsible for the largest part of the traffic and thus revenue?
Revenues: $ 29.321 million
Costs of Revenues: $ 18,940 million
Profitability: $ 10,381 million
Now, I’m not saying, that Google should be a socialistic enterprise. But come on, give the creators who are being attacked from every corner of society a break already. Because let’s face it: people go to YouTube for the content and not the advertisement around it.
Or is “Do no evil” just a hollow phrase?
2011 Financial Tables – Google Investor Relations.
Update: Gute Artikel zum Thema auf Spreeblick:
http://www.spreeblick.com/2011/06/21/gema-vs-youtube-geruchte-zahlen-forderungen/
Auch wenn in dem folgenden etwas zu viel polemisiert wird, trotzdem gute Infos.
http://www.spreeblick.com/2010/05/17/gema-vs-youtube-wer-nimmt-uns-unsere-videos-weg/