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Unlucky - youngsters can forget all about seeing Miley Cyrus larking around naked on a wrecking ball, or Rihanna thrusting her crotch at the camera, because now new rules are set to be enforced giving music videos age ratings, in the same way as movies.

The British Board of Film Classification have announced plans to give age ratings to videos streaming online, with a pilot scheme to be implemented to assess the viability of the new system. The content of pop videos, aimed directly at youngsters, by artists including Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke and Rihanna have been fiercely criticised in the past year, and the new scheme seeks to project young people from viewing inappropriate material.

"Google has said that if we start to age-rate videos, they will carry the BBFC age rating," says David Austin, the BBFC's assistant director. "They've also said they will look at the possibility of parental controls in relation to age rating."

A recent petition was launched, urging David Cameron to take action on the content of music videos, singling out the naked models dancing in Robin Thicke's controversial 'Blurred Lines' video as an example of why some videos are not suitable for children.

Below: BANNED - the music videos we weren't supposed to see