That is quite unfortunate, they probably should have grandfathered old content in so only new videos were be struck.
Yeah I have explored royalty free music but most of my music I mix into my videos are indeed copyrighted. Its not a big deal for me though, as I dont see Youtube as a place to make money.. Just a place to dump my high bitrate videos, as trying to upload them to dentralized platforms you really have to lower the quality so it wont buffer.
Indeed I do love the Peakd feature of adding other users as beneficiaries. Being voluntary I have used that and added many people as beneficiaries over the years.
Haha I will probably keep making videos with whatever music I choose and just get paid on Hive instead of YouTube.
Do what you like! At the time when the change was made, we did not have many alternatives, other than maybe liveleak. Hive definitely changes the game, that is for sure.