Wow. Seems so odd they wish to kill off so much ad revenue. Think they are running into copyright issues with ASCAP and BMI?
What ads? Promoted posts? I don't see any ads on any stream there ever. Thus, I think it's not a profit center for them.
Yes I think that rights holders want control or at least tracking of recorded music but I don't give a care about that.
I don't need facebook to provide album rips for me. Youpuke has plenty of that.
Musicians and live music people are freaking for no reason.
Read this instead: https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/blog/updates-and-guidelines-for-including-music-in-video
Thank you. Finally some actual factual information about the change.
This FB page doesn't really clarify the oct 1 change at all.
AH second link is somewhat more helpful. Perhaps the change mostly applies to folks doing DJ streams and listening parties.
"If you post content that contains music owned by someone else, your content may be blocked, or may be reviewed by the applicable rights owner and removed if your use of that music is not properly authorized."