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There's trouble a-brewin' for online music in the UK, after YouTube decided to start pulling music videos from UK users of its site, in an escalating row with PRS, the collection society which collects and pays out fees for music usage in the UK. With YouTube claiming that PRS has hiked its fees in its negotiations for a new contract, rendering YouTube's notoriously non-profit-making offering even more anti-profitable, and the PRS claiming it's just trying to get a fair rate for music being used (very effectively it should be added) on Google's bandwidth-busting site.

Negotiations continue, so hopefully the stand-off will be resolved. In the meantime, The Guardian offers eight ways to survive without music on YouTube.