[tehwebguy]

I kind of hope YouTube gets mad and tells those distros to eat shit.

Aside from rights management do these "distros" do ANYTHING anymore? And they are too lazy to do any rights management work that YouTube isn't performing semi- or fully-automatically?

YouTube should not allow them to simply be gate keepers.

[makomk]

I expect YouTube is the one imposing these requirements on the distributors. Licensing your content under the Creative Commons, then going around and telling YouTube that anyone who uses it is infringing your copyright and they need to pay you to keep it up is dishonest and damaging to the YouYube ecosystem as a whole.

[mschuster91]

> Aside from rights management do these "distros" do ANYTHING anymore?

Yes - getting physical media manufactured and distributed worldwide, promotion, and organizing world tours. All that needs massive financial firepower, you're not going to get e.g. prime-time TV ad spots as an indie label.