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Koda, who represents all danish music is negotiating a new contract with google. The old one expired this April, but is extended until a new contract is negotiated.

Google wants to pay only 30% of the old contract during negotiations and is now threatening to remove all danish music from YouTube.

Koda wants the new contract to have higher payments as Google is paying well below competitors.

(HoD = "Hug of Death" - please don't use obscure TLAs* - it makes people feel excluded)

(* three letter acronyms)

EDIT - and it means something like "site down because it's been linked to from here and can't handle the traffic)

EDIT2 - "tl;dr" is at least easy to google...

I didn't think that one was obscure _here_. Point taken.

It's best to just assume that all acronyms are obscure and spell them out the first time you use them, especially ones related to a specific field of interest, hobby, profession, or culture.

fwiw I’ve seen the term “hug of death” term used for years but that did not cross my mind when I saw “HoD”.

My first thought was "Hood of Defiance".

same. Until today I had only heard it on Reddit.

I think it is a Javascript problem? I stopped the page from loading and pressed Firefox's reader mode button and the article text showed up.