"User upload platforms, such as SoundCloud and YouTube, are taking advantage of exemptions from copyright laws that simply should not apply to them," wrote Frances Moore, boss of industry body the IFPI, in a July blog post.
Now staff morale is in the toilet, the user experience is a mess, the subscription models are unappealing, competitors are growing rapidly and musicians are fleeing to other upload platforms.
The sheer size of YouTube's free-to-upload content platform all but makes it impossible to meaningfully moderate.
Of course YouTube itself can also be criticised for hosting videos ripped from elsewhere and uploaded to the platform, a point that seems to have escaped Green.
They are working with Storyful, a news gathering and curation operation that will help provide verification of videos uploaded onto the platform.
To help protect dissidents using video to tell their stories in countries with repressive government regimes, YouTube made available a new tool on Wednesday allowing people to obscure faces within videos uploaded onto its platform.
With all the information you upload onto the platform — photos, interests, occupation, hobbies, favourite books, films and music, marital status, political leanings, dress sense — you're handing over your electronic DNA….
In addition, data on any geographic location in the world can be uploaded to the platform.
In addition, their critical capacity to be able to conduct the review and correction of issues uploaded to the platform by peers has been enhanced.
Nevertheless, data quantity and quality are still directly dependent on the amount and the type of data uploaded by the platform users.
