YouTube muting videos with copyrighted music

YouTube has recently begun muting videos with copyrighted music, according to Mashable.com. Not that I care that much, since most of the videos featuring copyrighted music in the background are silly anime videos that are synchronized to the latest Nickelback (or Linkin Park) ditty.

Actually, I do care, because as soon as a service like YouTube starts doing stuff like this, its popularity and soon after quality starts to diminish. Users don't like their videos being messed with, and you can hear most of what they are putting into their videos on the radio for free anyway, so what is the big deal? They are not making any money off the videos. Now copyrighted video, that is another issue because it is most of the time paid content elsewhere.