I think you guys are looking at it wrong.

I'd guess the reason they're deleting it is they want a slice of the pie. and they were being left out of the party on their own content.

They own the content...users upload it...other uses watch it...and the owners of the site get all the advertising revenue.....and uni gets nothing. Of course they're pissed.

But this way...if they co-own the site....then when people keep violating copyright like they already do when up loading, uni gets a piece of the action too.....so they can then basicly give their blessing to what already happens but this way get in on the good time of advertising revenues - which afterall access to their product is driving.

Yeah...like i said I find it "functional"...but not brilliant. I have issues with how it (the solo) is structured I think. IMO a truely great guitar solo should have emotion and kind of build to something.

It starts off great - lots of feel...but it also kind of wanders and drags and it's almost like it never quite climaxes the way it should.

I mean i shouldn't be so harsh as it's cooler than I would have recorded...and I do enjoy it now.

So  think what the song needed was somethign that pushed it to another level. Like musically - the orchestration and the vocals and everything to me is brillance...and the solo it has is kinda cool...and so what comes over to me is an amazing song...I think one of Axl's best ever....but I also think...if they'd managed to put a 1 in a billion style guitar solo in there to go with it....then the song would have become the greatest thing known to man...lol...but there's only a handful of guys that are going to hit that magic place on this track....and you could wait a lifetime to find it i guess.

But it's awesome as is anyway. It all makes me wonder how hard it must be for artists. Like even with my own music I often think "could i do this better another day" and when you have a kickass song lyrically like this...it must be frustrating to wonder if you get more players in and whatever...at what point does somethign get as good as it will..and how many drafts is enough. I can see why this album took axl forever. I think this song is amazing...but I can also see how many options there are for it...(pushing up the harp in the mix, bringing in bumble or bucket for a solo, god knows what else)...

I'm going with scraped....love the song but there's so many layers of stuff going on that in places it trips out my ears and I can't make out who is doing what...i'd love to remix it.....although some of what i'm change will be undoable on rockband....like i'd love to bring up the backing vocals way higher at the end....