We've been writing about German music collection society
GEMA's
bizarre fight against YouTube for a few years now, in which all major
music videos are blocked from YouTube in Germany because GEMA is suing
YouTube and refuses to even discuss a potential license until the
lawsuit is over. As we noted recently, this is even frustrating
the labels
who feel that GEMA is costing them serious money in not just doing a
deal to make videos available. While researching something else on
Twitter, I came across this telling tweet, from an individual in Germany
talking about how they had to
use a Chinese web proxy
just to watch a new Sting video, and properly notes just how screwed up
the world is when people in Germany are relying on Chinese web proxies
just to watch music videos. I'm still trying to figure out what good
this does anyone... other than GEMA.
