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Music video website Vevo will soon see its content stripped from YouTube's API, in a move to block third parties using it without the firm's permission. The decision by the Universal Music Group and Sony Group, which co-own Vevo, was made after the founder of Muziic - 16-year-old David Nelson of Bettendorf, Iowa - kicked up an …

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  1. kissingthecarpet
    WTF?

    Not sure what the problem is

    but I tried to watch vids on youtube earlier that were marked VEVO & they were choppy & unwatchable - non-VEVO vids were 100% OK

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Same here

      and I'm in Scotland, which isn't- according to the article- one of the regions allowed access.

      But yeah, VEVO was choppy and unwatchable- even when I left it to precache it was still choppy and awful. Other Youtube/Dailymotion/etc vids worked beautifully.

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    2. SirTainleyBarking
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      FAIL

      They're badly streamed

      from servers that have insufficient bandwidth

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  2. Robert E A Harvey

    Yawn

    Oh dear. One mindless collection of time-vampires tries to entice away the customers of another mindless collection of attention-distracting trivialists.

    Wake me up when it causes the end of the world.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    vevo?

    Never heard of them.

    Easy come, easy go.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Universal what now?

    All of this is starting to seem increasingly irrelevant- a crummy parasitic startup trying to rip off a greedy corrupt dinosaur, and neither offering a product that is in any way relevant to a lot of Earthlings.

    Le zzzz.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Are we not Men?

    We are Vevo!

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