Article W9DG Thom Yorke: YouTube steals art 'like Nazis during second world war'

Thom Yorke: YouTube steals art 'like Nazis during second world war'

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The Radiohead frontman hits out at video-sharing site's supposed double standards over ad-blocking: 'Artists don't get paid, but if YouTube don't get a profit out of it, it's not fair'

Thom Yorke has shared his views on YouTube, suggesting that the corporation, along with parent company Google, have "seized control" of art in the same way Nazi Germany did during the second world war.

Yorke, who famously called Spotify "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse", shared his thoughts on the video-sharing service during an interview for Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

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