My guess: Google/YouTube just had a really bad
day and tried to shoot themselves in the foot.
As they continue with such nonsense, they will get
a lot of push back. Then, or eventually, they will
see their mistakes, wise up, and quit being nasty.
In the meanwhile, Zoe has little option but to
f'get about YouTube and let them hurt themselves
and, then, consider YouTube again after YouTube
wises up.
But it should be not too difficult for Zoe to
bring up her own Web site that permits downloading
and/or streaming her music/videos. E.g., consider
the Web site of violinist Caroline Goulding which
at times has had some streaming of some of her
music and links to some relevant video of hers.
And then there is also for her
If such a site for Zoe becomes popular, then Zoe
could run some ads to get revenue to pay for the
site.
A site that is small or even larger than small
should be fairly inexpensive, especially if just
hosted at Amazon or some such. Or, a computer
plugged together from parts for less than
$2000 and with, say, 35 Mbps upload speed to the
Internet for, say, $90 a month, should be able
to be a significant start. Get usage enough
to max out the capacity of that site, and should
be able to get some revenue way beyond what is
needed to run the site.
There is something fundamental here: The basic
technology in infrastructure software,
Moore's law, whatever the similar law is for
disk space, optical fiber data rates, and
the prices of these that permit YouTube to
send so much content free to users and for
many months with few or no ads permits
many others, including even a single artist,
to put their content on the Internet also.
As they continue with such nonsense, they will get a lot of push back. Then, or eventually, they will see their mistakes, wise up, and quit being nasty.
In the meanwhile, Zoe has little option but to f'get about YouTube and let them hurt themselves and, then, consider YouTube again after YouTube wises up.
But it should be not too difficult for Zoe to bring up her own Web site that permits downloading and/or streaming her music/videos. E.g., consider
http://www.carolinegoulding.com/
the Web site of violinist Caroline Goulding which at times has had some streaming of some of her music and links to some relevant video of hers. And then there is also for her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwNiUK9sNBA
If such a site for Zoe becomes popular, then Zoe could run some ads to get revenue to pay for the site.
A site that is small or even larger than small should be fairly inexpensive, especially if just hosted at Amazon or some such. Or, a computer plugged together from parts for less than $2000 and with, say, 35 Mbps upload speed to the Internet for, say, $90 a month, should be able to be a significant start. Get usage enough to max out the capacity of that site, and should be able to get some revenue way beyond what is needed to run the site.
There is something fundamental here: The basic technology in infrastructure software, Moore's law, whatever the similar law is for disk space, optical fiber data rates, and the prices of these that permit YouTube to send so much content free to users and for many months with few or no ads permits many others, including even a single artist, to put their content on the Internet also.
Good luck to Zoe.