Thom Yorke Derides Google And YouTube as Nazis

Thom Yorke has made no secret of his disdain for the music industry famously releasing In Rainbow back in 2007 on a 'pay-what-you-like' platform and releasing the last Atoms For Peace album through the controversial Bittorrent website.

Yorke has now extended his contempt for the industry by including YouTube and Google in his venom. Yorke isn't the only artist lamenting the current state of the industry. Taylor Swift, David Byrne and Adele have all recently pulled their music from the music streaming service Spotify claiming that their payment to artists for use of their music is minuscule at best.

"All I know is that they make money from the work of many artists who do not derive any benefit," stated Yorke to La Repubblica. "Service providers make money: Google, YouTube. A lot of money. ‘Oh, sorry, it was yours? Now it is ours. No, no, we are joking, it is always yours,’ They seize it. It’s like what the Nazis did during the Second World War. In fact they all did that during the war, the British too: steal the art from other countries. What’s the difference?”