[Infowarrior] - Amanda Palmer: "Please Drop Me"
Richard Forno
rforno at infowarrior.org
Mon Mar 30 18:20:40 UTC 2009
Brilliantt lyrics.....audio is NSFW. :)
Amanda Palmer Asks Fans To Upload Her Anti-Record Label Song To YouTube
You may recall (of course) that Warner Music and Google are in a fight
over YouTube. Warner Music is demanding that Google pay more than
Google thinks is reasonable, so now all Warner Music Group videos have
been pulled from YouTube. Of course, this is actually pissing off
numerous Warner Music musicians, who realize that YouTube (even if not
paying directly for their videos) benefits their careers greatly. One
such artist is Amanda Palmer -- who is signed to Roadrunner Records, a
subsidiary of WMG. She was one of the first to complain about Warner
pulling her videos from YouTube. Now she's going even further. Rose M.
Welch sends in a link to a YouTube video of a recent Amanda Palmer
concert where she first tells the camera operator to make sure he puts
the video on YouTube so she can watch it, and then sings a song to her
record label, demanding they drop her:
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090330/0021304299.shtml
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