Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has likened Google’s YouTube music video ad revenue to the Nazi’s seizure of iconic artworks during the Second World War.
The dramatic sentiment emerged during an interview with Italian publication Republica whereupon he was asked to share how he listens to music these days.
Yorke, whose solo album retails on P2P sharing site BitTorrent, used the opportunity to take a swing at YouTube. He said that artists who have their music on YouTube “are not paid – or are paid ridiculous sums, and apparently this is fine for them”.
He then accused YouTube of trawling the net Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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