YouTube Ordered to Remove “Illegal” Copyright Blocking Notices
Found on TorrentFreak on Friday, 28 February 2014
A court has ordered the video giant to remove blocking messages which claim GEMA is to blame for thousands of videos being unavailable in Germany on copyright grounds.
Time and again, users are informed that videos are blocked due to GEMA not granting the necessary music rights. As a result, GEMA has become very unpopular indeed.
“For almost three years, YouTube has misled the public with these blocking messages and unlawfully influenced public opinion at the expense of GEMA,” GEMA CEO Dr. Harald Heker said in a statement.
Youtube should indeed stop to mislead the visitors and tell the truth. The videos are blocked because the GEMA demands 30-50 times more than other rights organizations for each watched stream. Youtube obivously does not want to pay them that much and as a consequence, they don't receive the rights to stream the videos.