Muziic likely to irk Youtube
The service enables users to stream YouTube's music to their PCs without fiddling with videos.
Greg Sandoval downloaded Muziic and said this is a slick piece of software. Streamlining YouTube's music experience is an idea that he suspected a lot of people have considered, and one that Universal Music Group appears to be pursing. The largest of the top four recording companies, is negotiating to create a premium music-video site in partnership with YouTube.
But here comes the cold water: this site has yet to receive the blessing of Google, the large recording companies or the scores of film and TV rights holders who filmed the many live performances on YouTube. I doubt these companies will welcome a service that makes it easy for users to avoid YouTube ads. They certainly won't allow the Nelsons to profit without at least receiving compensation.
The good news is that the labels are much more willing than in the past to work with technologists. Often the solution is that the big recording companies will take an ownership stake in the start-up, like they did with MySpace Music.
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