What performing artists fear most is proliferating on You Tube. It's not the retransmission of some of their TV appearances, all of which are high quality. The fear is that some asshole will sneak into a venue, record them without their knowledge, and then post very poor reproductions of their art. You Tube is fucking them royally, and you have to read carefully to discern actual recordings and illegal bootlegging of a concert with a pocket sized camcorder. To be fair, the bogus stuff is being stripped out, but allowing this stuff on line sucks. Here is a bogus Willie Nelson "Pancho and Lefty" shot from God Knows Where in the audience.
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I don't see where this is a problem, although I'd like better differentiation between official and non-official videos. This kind of thing has been going forever w.r.t. opera: In addition to commercial records there exist tons of bootleg/pirate recordings, the quality of which varies from "pretty good" to awful. Casual listeners don't buy the bootlegs; they're for rabid fans or collectors. If you're chasing a particular artist in a particular performance (say, Joan Sutherland as Donizetti's Emilia di Liverpool, 1957), you take what you can get, live with the imperfections, and are thankful that a recording even exists.
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