Everybody is shocked with YouTube’s decision to block the videos for the consumers of United Kingdom. Patrick Walker, the YouTube chairman, said the company is decided to punish the British consumers as it fails in the license agreement. The performing right society (PRS) has told the You Tube to reconsider the decision as it affects the major parts of the United Kingdom.

YouTube has many viewers from the British and near by areas. The PRS says that the YouTube did not consult the PRS regarding this issue, and they independently decided to block the videos for the UK consumers. Meanwhile, Google also said that they will pay less to the writers and the artists as most of the video viewing in the world is through YouTube. The decision came as the PRS is making the license fees more and more, and so YouTube decided to bring the issue to the public by blocking all the videos for the UK consumers.

Therefore, this will heavily affect the UK consumers as they will not able to view music video and music from YouTube. YouTube pays license to the PRS for the major labels displayed in YouTube, and once the PRS decided to raise the fees, YouTube (i.e. Google) decided to block the content.

The main theme is to make aware of the public about the PRS. The YouTube criticized the lack of transparency about the PRS activities and its new deals. Walker concluded that by setting these rates the loser will be everyone. So it is now in the hands of PRS to make some deal with YouTube to solve this problem.

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