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Video # 3 – soft focus, but distorted sound
For the complete story see Warner Music hates fans in Canada
The digital rights war rages on with one useless volley after another. Researching Faith Hill for Poor Taylor Swift showed everyone she can’t sing, I hit the Warner Music wall on YouTube.
“Faith Hill – Take Me As I Am (Video)”
“This video is unavailable.”
“This video contains content from WMG, who has decided to block it in your country.”
Makes sense to you right. Faith Hill is not a hot star anymore so she lives on her fan’s memory of the glory days in the 1990s when before she got married and had a family.
Country fans are loyal as long as you treat them right and will keep buying older star’s music and attending concerts for decades. However, people are used to music on demand. Faith Hill’s song Take Me As I Am mght on CMT and you wake up wanting to see it again.
So a Canadian fan who might have seen her tour in Canada last summer or the year before is out of luck. Warner only want US fans to watch her videos on YouTube. They let you watch small sized ones on her official website but if you try to buy the music, it takes you to Apple iTunes Store US which is also not available in Canada.
If you are a determined fan, you can see Take Me As I Am with a Google search which gives you several choices: 1) a Boston live performance with bad audio 2) another copy that has badly pixelated video 3) a decent but not perfect copy and a few more after that. This video is number 3. It has been converted which creates a soft or fuzzy focus.
Marketing 101 – “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.” Jesus Christ could give Warner Music a lesson or two on marketing.
Warner Music is working on the premise if you want to hear Faith Hill – pay. If you want to see Faith Hill – pay more. Good luck to them in this age of digital music.
This video is copyright Warner Music and used as fair dealing / fair use as part of a news story or criticism.
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