Shakespeare said, “If music be the food of love, play on,” but he didn’t have licensing rights to contend with. Over the weekend, some YouTube and YouTube Music users suddenly found that many popular songs had vanished from the streaming service. Attempting to play some of your favorite tracks now brings up an error message stating, “This video contains content from SESAC. It is not available in your country.”
What happened to these tracks? And when will they be coming back? We’ve got the complete low-down on what’s going on in this YouTube and SESAC saga.