Square, why the paranoia about the game's music?

[Enkidoh]

I've never seen a company crack down as hard on a community for putting the game's music on YouTube. The company cared not one bit when 1.0 was around, but now that you've launched the game again, any mention of having any piece of sound from 1.0 or 2.0 and you come down hard with copyright claims.

It seems a bit excessive. Especially considering you have other MMOs or games with full soundtracks up and absolutely no issue has been brought up by the company. If you're so concerned with lost revenue, then why not just put ads in the videos and be done with it?

The only reason I can fathom is a release of the soundtrack in digital media will be forthcoming. If so, then fantastic! I'll be buying it, as the music is great.

Simple, it's their copyright, they can enforce it however they wish. The old 1.0 tracks that had been on Youtube for ages were probably tolerated by SE as has been said because until recently there was no complete soundtrack for 1.0 available. However, with Before Meteor's release, that's no longer an excuse, and hence SE finally brought the axe down on Youtube users who uploaded it.

As for ARR tracks, there is already the Sounds of Eorzea album that came with the Collector's Edition with the new city and zone themes, and a great deal of other tracks used in ARR were actually from 1.0, so there's only a comparative handful of new material still waiting to be released. Have a little patience - SE will release it soon enough.