The Dark Side Of Music Piracy

What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?
Do you ever wonder where your illegally downloaded music comes from?

This isn’t the story of Napster...or Limewire...but rather a story of the people who uploaded to these sites... And how they became in the words of the US government

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[hate]

I love the quote, "the man who was *crippling* the music industry", right after he himself basically proved that piracy doesn't really affect sales.

[thechaz]

I remember the South Park episode about piracy. After the feds invade Stan’s house, a record executive refers to Britney Spears, I believe, “Because you illegally downloaded music she has to settle with a silver fountain im her backyard instead of a gold one.” Haha

[luigi]

incredible the lengths law enforcement goes through to catch these guys as we let known sexual predators walk free.

[WraxTV]

I love that they were considering stopping partly because everyone was using autotune and only the same couple of producers were making every song. So, the way to stop piracy is to make music that is so crap, people won't even go through the effort of copying it for free.

[billie-jeanmede]

Pirating is a victimless crime. The people who produce or create the media that you are pirating are already far richer than you will ever be. They wouldn't even notice the missing income if not for their greed.

[breawycker]

I'm kinda on Dell's side. Oh no, the rapper who's album was released still sold a million copies! I felt bad for him when he got caught. The FBI was just the record label's bitch. I personally buy albums and legal copies of stuff but I'm not gonna cry for Adobe when I get a free copy of a software they decided you have to pay a subscription for

[theotherjared]

I remember when RIAA tried to sue limewire for $72 trillion, which was more than the GDP of every country combined at the time.

[iGameD]

Has the recording industry ever payed for the environmental damage the vinyl LP, tapes and CD's have left behind? Thos products will remain in landfillls, the ocean, and sea life for hundreds of years. In the 1990s AOL printed enough free month-of-internet CD's to stack to the moon and back. Just imagine what the recording industry has wrought. They activily stood in the way of electronic distribution until they became irrelevant.

[kayeplaguedoc]

"The web in the 90s was boring, no social media"
The web when it was just a collection of weird personal websites that could be about anything ruled, social media is one of the reasons it's a society warping, highly censored and policed hellhole

[wardrich]

18:45 the fact that they treat piracy this hard is fucking disgusting, and a complete waste of tax dollars.

[LiEnby]

"brought the music industry to its knees" haha good joke

[SsoUuLl]

I strongly believe that sending a full squad of men in vests and helmets with guns to a pale kid that can barely lift a bag of doritos off his table is f-ed up. It's not like he's going to defend his hard drive with a machine gun. On the other hand I would love to see a swat team breaking into the office of some CEO after labor union gets reports of unfair wage and denial of social benefits. That would be fun, they seem too comfortable sometimes.

[orionx]

The actual dark side is going to prison for "cOnSpIrAcY tO comMiT cOpYrIghT infRiNgeMent"

[loganmannke]

This channel is gonna blow up, just a matter of when. Keep up the great work man, it'll pay off bro.

[lumirairazbyte]

Music Piracy doesn’t crippled the Music Industry, but it prevented any other further monopolistic practices that the Labels do to snitch every penny for both consumer and artist (Disney Vault, artificial scarcity, geo-restrictions, deslisting, exclusives, etc)

Let’s be honest, iTunes, Netflix, Spotify or TikTok owes their existence to the online piracy.

[Mrhellacat]

"But the web in 1996 was a little boring. No social media, no e-commerce"
That's the best part!

[arzfan]

Hard to pirate music when it's uploaded to YouTube for free by the artist, the only music that's "pirated" is from video games because many don't let you get their soundtracks anywhere

[kxdsh]

Terabytes of Data? in the early 2000's / late ass 90's? was that even possible back then?

[BeenThereDundas]

"even as evidence they were worthless". Brilliant end to the video!

Very well made. keep it up man, Im sure you will go far.

[HankW]

10/10 content my guy, happy to be here before this channel explodes.