Live Downloads

[AndrewG]

Originally Posted by EddieJ1984

Interestingly there was a youtube channel that had tons and tons of metallica live bootlegs up (MilanicaChannel), I guess you could say the warioloaf of metallica lol (but even more content) and they just got shut down QPrime (Metallica's management) apparently one of the ones that complained.....that sucks.

I dont get how watching old live footage that fans recorded can hurt a band/singer.

It seems sometimes random publishing houses remove videos as well. I had some tribute videos removed 4-5 years ago by "Stage Three Music" which had been up for a while whilst copyrighted videos just stayed. I really don't get why they trawl through old YouTube vids and do that (if it's not on behalf of instructions of the original artist and/or writer at least) and if that action indeed helps an artist or just upsets fans. To me it comes across as simply an action of stretching their muscles: "we can do this so we are going to.". If it really improves their or the artists' income or improves/helps the artists' media footprint I seriously doubt.

[loaferman61]

Originally Posted by EddieJ1984

Interestingly there was a youtube channel that had tons and tons of metallica live bootlegs up (MilanicaChannel), I guess you could say the warioloaf of metallica lol (but even more content) and they just got shut down QPrime (Metallica's management) apparently one of the ones that complained.....that sucks.

I dont get how watching old live footage that fans recorded can hurt a band/singer.

Maybe Metallica's lead singer did not think his vocals were up to par, or maybe the video was "crappy" and recorded on a "cell phone". Did the band and backing vocals sound fine?