She can publish her own music on her own terms. She just can't do it with YouTube's help on her own terms.
Why should YouTube be obliged to meet a person on their arbitrarily chosen terms?
Why should YouTube be obliged to meet a person on their arbitrarily chosen terms?
My wider point is: why isn't it as easy to discover an artist's work on the wider web as it is on YouTube? Isn't this an opportunity for someone?
There was a huge and diverse ecosystem. It's mostly gone now. This for the most part works better for users, which is why that old ecosystem is mostly gone. As a rule, users don't want to bounce between five or ten or twenty sites to find what they want - users prefer one or two.
More specifically, there's a huge number of startups hellbent on being that someone. I've personally had contact with several. That you didn't know this is an excellent comment on how big the perceived opportunity actually is.