Originally Posted by Nautilus

He could always decline signing up with the record company and just go on uploading his piece of crap songs to YT as much as he wants. But now that he signed up and they invested money in him, he's bound by contractual obligations. You can't have both. Either you upload to YT and enjoy your billion views and your $100 ad sense check, or you sign up with the record company, get paid millions but shut up and do what they want you to do.