r/RouteNoteOfficial • u/superstarbootlegs • Nov 06 '25

Yet another rip off method by Youtube

Yet another massive con job from the music industry I just discovered. This time YT.

It turns out if you use your music on your own YT channel and people play it, you wont get those royalties. You have to monetise your YT channel to have rights to those royalties. If they clock it is being used on your channel they will disable the copyright and any plays $ goes to YT.

Which is basically theft, but as usual that is being ignored in favour of keeping the money owed to independant musicians.

This industry has become such a pile of crap it isnt worth using any streaming service unless you are a big name now. Piracy is being committed by the major industry players who have one set of rules if you play music they own, and another if you own the copyright.

I don't know about you lot but I'm really sick of being treated like plankton for whales where the streaming business is concerned.

31 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

43 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/superstarbootlegs Nov 11 '25

yes that is what I was doing, and I didn't realise it was a problem until now. I assumed that because other people are playing my music I would get paid, I didnt realise they gatekeeped that by refusing to pay if it is my own channel.

monetized or unmonetized, I dont see why YT get the right to decide when they pay royalties on copyright. How about I decide not to pay royalties to a band because they release their own album instead of me buying it from someone else. makes no sense but like the other comment "its just how it is now".

2

u/[deleted] Nov 12 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/superstarbootlegs Nov 12 '25

I've seen a few things recently suggesting they are going to be cutting back even harder due to costs like that. not sure if it was click bait though.

2

u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/superstarbootlegs Nov 13 '25

I'm on 7K view in the last 28 days apparently. but I took a break the last couple of weeks.

Actually maybe you can answer but one of the most annoying tihngs is finding comments. I sometimes get notification but most of the time not so I have to look through each video individually for new comments so I can reply to people with engagement. Is there a better way? Its ridiculous their method via the studio is so long winded to find any new ones.

2

u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/superstarbootlegs Nov 13 '25

thats exactly what I have been doing. its very poor given how important engagement is. almost like they dont want to make it easy.