I was starting to think justice was fake, but Metallica getting a copyright strike for playing their own music has convinced me otherwise.

The ironic element on top of this is that a number of those 80s rock songs were fight the power anthems

Imagine paying a million dollars for a band to show up only for them to get muted

I feel piracy is slowly becoming more morally correct and more ligitimate than the legal practices of the actual media industry

Let me play the world’s smallest violin to express my condolences for the music industry...

“US of fuck you in the A” How did I not hear this before? Can’t wait to use it.

Tyler Then: these games suck, these games are really cool. Tyler Now: Fuck copyright, here's why.

Fun fact: the creators of new vegas wanted to use an Elvis song for the new vegas radio but it would cost as much as making the game itself. They also wanted to use Marty Robbins' more popular song El Paso but settled on Big Iron for the same reason.

Lars was the primary driving force behind Metallica going after Napster. The rest of the band didn’t really care, at least initially.

Sometimes, trying to avoid something only causes it to happen like a prophecy or paradox. Well done Metallica

It's honestly scary the power these companies hold over technology, being able to halt the progression of an entire media format for a decade is no laughing matter.

I love that the self proclaimed "guardian of western democracy" has legalized bribes (and people still wonder why corporations wield so much power)

It’s a bribe... it’s just a bribe!

Imagine inventing a brand new format for music, expecting it to be the next biggest hit and bam your life's work is destroyed by boomers

Maybe the Metallica were the friends we made along the way.

Fun fact: The most played song in Metallica’s live performances is "Master of Puppets", it was played 1,256 times.

A friend of mine, who used to be in a band in the early 2000s, said he leaked their newest album early on Limewire and when thet started touring for it everyone already knew the lyrics. That was his intention. ;)

Twitch: Did you pay to use that music? Blizzard: We paid Metallica! Twitch: But does Metallica own their music? Metallica: I thought we did...

Today I learned: The music industry is more screwed up than any drug based crime syndicate

Ironically it has also caused a lot of small musicians to get a chance to be featured since larger channels need something they can safely play so they pick start-ups or other channels.

And people say we don't live in a real life Cyberpunk Universe.

I like how all these 80s metal bands are the most pro-establishmemt people around

Can't wait for the army to play fortunate son in the recruitment ads.

Remember when iTunes used to only sell you a single copy of the song... and if something happened to that copy, you had to buy another? And on a side note, the record industry made HUGE profits from CDs. Unlike cassettes, which were actually expensive to manufacture and had to have the music recorded on to them, CDs could just be stamped out like records had been. But the record industry decided to charge more than cassettes cause FU.

The entire concept of lobbying is such a bruh moment

Hmm jp Morgan. Rockefeller. And so on. we need another teddy roosevelt to brake this bs

I'm gen z and like a lot of metallicas stuff but man have they made some really shitty decisions

Man, more I learn about how it works in USA, I have less about less desire to go there.

short term gratification without looking into the future,hmmmmm I wonder which industry sounds like this *coughs gaming *coughs streaming services

What’s brutally ironic, going back to that whole thing about Napster being a place for up and coming musicians, is what happened to Diamond Head as a result of Metallica. For those who aren’t aware, Diamond Head was one of the many bands that came out of the new wave of British heavy metal in the 1980s, along with Iron Maiden and various others. The thing was, Diamond Head was one of the biggest inspirations for Metallica as a band. If you listen to a lot of the early demo tracks prior to Kill ‘Em All, and the listen to Diamond Head’s debut album(Lightning to the Nations) you can see the similarities. Most Metallica fans know their cover of what is Diamond Head’s most famous song, “Am I Evil?”, along with this there were covers of “Helpless”, “The Prince”, and “It’s Electric” as well. While I think all of these covers are inferior to the originals on LTTN(Metallica changed the lyrical order and slowed the main riff on Am I Evil?, cut down the endings on Helpless and The Prince, etc) they helped introduce a wider audience to Diamond Head’s best. Either Sean Harris or Brian Tatler(can’t remember which) went on to say that Diamond Head would have died out without Metallica effectively copying them. What that lawsuit did was basically shut down any chance of someone else replicating what they did to Diamond Head and inadvertently helping the ones they covered. “Devil took my soul, but diamonds you repaid” ~The Prince, 1980

12:12 “the way to stop piracy is to make a service better than the pirates are offering”

"Beer GOOD! Money GOOD! Napster BAAAD!" - James Hetfield There were so many flash parodies taking the piss out of Metallica during their suit against Napster and Napster's founder. Those few years EVERYONE hated Metallica.

When music publisher become too greedy and finally starting to kill all of their own star slowly. Now imagine theres no other channel other than the creators can used their music. Then their music will not be marketed or listened free. KZfaq is one of the best marketer, and they just plant their own mines to hurt themselves. And its just matter of time we wont hear any licensed/copyright music being used as covers, BGMs, memes or creators videos. Hell even their own concert become censored and nobody can share anything for free to all other fans that not even able to see them/attend any of their event live bcs of money, different parts of the world, etc. They basically killed music industries...

"[copy right laws] have done this strange thing...and dug themselves into a hole.." it's almost like valuing exploativative short tern gains over everything else is a self destructive system, almost as if exploativative systems sow the seeds of their own destruction and are inherently unsustainable

Napster strikes back

One thing you forgot to mention about metallica. Is that the band owns their own music now, and actually is allowed to release it as they wish, even for free. I got free digital copies of new albums when I bought show tickets

Tyler: "it's only a matter of time before they are a distant memory" Me, looking at the Metallica shirt I am currently wearing: :(

Why would I listen to “TNT” by ACDC when I can instead listen to “Trance Music for Racing Game” by Bobby Cole?

Me, a writer: Why does this feel familiar? Oh! Right! Amazon exists to destroy our hopes and dreams.

Your best work in my opinion. RIAA And MPAA always been pure evil.

Looking for something to watch... "Uploaded 1 minute ago'. Everything is coming up Milhouse!

Basically the wordier, quirkier rundown of south parks Christian Hard Rock

For whom the bell tolls... time indeed marches on

Hey guys its joe nuts cco at Activision Lizard today we are announcing guitar hero revival oh wait haha just kidding its a free to play mobile game

Tbh many of the artists I listen to and buy shit from I only ever found on KZfaq while listening to other artists music

Something ironic about rock and classic metal becoming the genre of choice for the Merchant's Guild's ads.

I think this video is good overall, and I love knowledge hub as a whole, but as a young musician, I feel like my place in this conflict has been overlooked and even smoothed over. Yes, technology has allowed for a ton more discoverability. But we have little to no ability to live off of that exposure. If copyright had been better preserved while also allowing for the growth of the digital marketplace, we might have been able to eat off of record sales as artists did in the 90s. But now, only labels make money off of streaming. Our only income is from breaking our backs on tour (which only turns a profit at a certain success level) and merch, which means that successful musicians aren’t primarily musicians anymore. We’re t-shirt designers. Yes, there’s patreon, but that’s incredibly unreliable and further forces us to be things we’re potentially not. If the digital marketplace were allowing our art to be “public good” like libraries, then we would get paid by the government. Because libraries pay writers and publishers for books in their collection. I’m not supporting the music industry’s actions here. But treating them like pure villains overlooks how, more and more, making music is the luxury of the privileged. Because people aren’t paying for our work

Musician/artist here. You were spot on in this video, I just wanted to add my two cents. Napster/other free digital music distribution platforms opened the floodgates to mass piracy. And while many small artists benefited by starting to grow a fan base, they still didn't earn money. In that time EVERYONE would pirate films and music so most people barely had the incentive to pay for it. As artists we can't buy groceries from exposure. That being said, the RIAA obviously went too far. People were spoiled by the convenience of digital audio but artist (and label income) was heavily affected. I don't really feel sorry for labels but artists should absolutely get paid for their work. This resulted in a compromise that is music streaming (eg Spotify). People could now listen to any music for free with ads or for a small price without ads making it very accessible, but individual streams don't pay much to artists. Lots of people criticize streaming platforms and honestly I don't know what a good solution would be, because the consumer will always insist on holding onto convenient things (not a bad thing, just a fact). Small artists can get discovered more easily than ever, but the only ones getting paid the big bucks are the major labels and artists still. That being said, the existence of music streaming and affordable/improving technology has definitely made music making more accessible which is a great thing for creatives I also wanted to leave a correction about artist income. You said artists make most of their money from concerts and merch. That is true today but it wasn't always that way. Before digital audio, physical record sales DID contribute to a large portion of an artist's income. The concerts were more of an advertisement for fans to buy the record, because record sales were higher. Then music piracy turned it all on its head and now, recorded music serves as an advertisement to the live shows (since the record doesn't earn as much anymore). This is a major change and all artists big and small were not sure how things would turn out while the world was transitioning into the digital era. I was too young back then but it must have been a scary and uncertain time. And now we have the present day where a global pandemic made countless live shows impossible.... It's still a scary and uncertain time. What I'm trying to say is PLEASE support independent creators, they need it and also sometimes you might just be surprised by the quality of their work

I just realized that he sounds like Kermit

This is why I'm one of those "they went downhill after the black album" people

Now I'm just wondering how much innovation was suppressed to keep a company/industry profitable.

Ig when mcr said in a song "I spent my high school career Spit on and shoved to agree So I could watch all my heroes Sell a car on TV" Ig that takes a whole new meaning....maybe?

Nothing tickles me like seeing Lars being hoisted by his own petard

loved the way you tackled the subject, putting emphasis on the business side of things, similiar to your videos about games i think. learned a whole lot i didn't know before. well-made as usual :)

Seeing boomers trying to be youthful is cringe

I like listening to metallica. But they sure did fuck up when attacking napster probably had an ego moment when they were in the spot light at around the 80's and 90's. I've had those moments in life.

If I ever get rich I’m gonna lobby to remove lobbying

Im so happy you are bringing up this Topic. Now u know the pain us musicians have to deal with

I'm surprised you didn't mention how Spotify managed to negotiate such low pay per stream by offering record company execs stock in Spotify in order to cut the artists out of the revenue model.

Best video in a while. Good balance of classic, history-based Knowledge hub, absurd visuals, a kiss of cynicism, a sprinkle of vidya gemu, and full-circley wrapped-upedness

As a composer, extortatious copyright is my living nightmare...

in the early-mid 2000s my sister was on a high school dance team. one of the ways they made money for the team was to sell recordings of their recitals to the families. i remember there being discussions in the booster meetings over “we’re not allowed to record and sell copies of the recitals if they dance to copyrighted music” it was completely fucking stupid

Pardon me while I go pirate all Metallica and RIAA claimed music (again).

i remember hearing from my older sister about Napster before it was shutdown, and after it was taken to court she told me how everyone at her High School was running to the city's library with their stack of laser disks to burn their songs onto them en masse. Even she got in on it, she still has those CDs with sharpie titles on them to this day I could only imagine the look of horror on Metallica's faces when they walked out of the court, smug about their victory, only to then hear about how Napster's traffic tripled almost overnight due to the coverage the case received. It would've been so cathartic

I've been sick of the overused mediocre music in ads. It makes me glad I'm figuring out how to produce my own for various uses.

Tyler seems to have a massive vendetta against Metallica that doesn’t stem from Napster.

"Being the true fight the system punk metal heroes they aspired to be, they went straight to their lawyers". XD

I really like that point about corporatizing and commercializing classic rock. It's really sad that kids might grow up knowing the beatles as just the guys who made all those car commercial songs. That would break John Lennon's heart. Or just make him smash things. Either way hed probably be a little cheesed.

Music Company’s Gotta Stop Treading On Me

As much as I like Metallica and acknowledge them as an important band in pushing metal into wider appeal they've done a lot of damage to the industry as well with blitzkrieg lawsuits, insanely priced merch and shows, and of course how they changed copyright law forever. But if it wasn't metallica it would've just been someone else to be the raging bull at that time.

We all can agree that your music is the best

9:42 The way you said it so ominously over that footage made it seem like that guy is some kind of comic book villain called The Publisher

The more I hear about america or even the world, the more I want to go to mars.

engineer gaming

Imagine being called “corporate rock” that’s gotta hurt

if I can wake up to something like this every day i wouldn’t be living in orwells 1984

Funny how people always want their music for free, but then always bitch about musicians wanting more money, because platforms like Spotify barely give any money at all to the artist.

Metallica were in the right with Napster. If an author had their book leaked on the internet and was being distributed for free then they would be upset about it. Now we're in a situation where music makes no money, and music has no value to most people. Most musicians can make no money from their music now as streaming services like Spotify pay their artists nothing unless you are absolutely massive.

The one who digs a pit for others often end up falling into it themselves

Spotify is mostly owned by the same 3 record conglomerates that own everything else, and is where the money goes. If you make legal streaming easier than piracy people will give it a go, that's the actual reckoning of the Napster saga.

Ah I remember when our good content creator was sane and Cody was hanging around. I'm sure his sanity will come around again. One day

"It was all about short term gains to protect interested in the here and now." I feel like that describes most American corporations/industries, lmao.

Why I love these vids: I went on a 2 hour deep dive on the girl scout story and it was literally in the video for 2 seconds.

And with the Grammys aka Recording Academy losing viewership for not rewarding real artistry but it being confirmed that it’s always been about politics and favoritism, is just adding more fire to the music industry roaring flames.

Tyler vs Shark Puppet: A Tragic Irony of Mind over Matter

Napsters vengeance is upon all of the music industry, the RIAA, Metallica and any all who attack the consumer

I get why Led Zeppelin didn't want their music used in movies and ads now.

Dat IBM Plex Mono font tho. A man of taste.

you should make a video about Disney, including the issue with Alan Dean Foster not receiving royalties from the giant.

"What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream."

One of your Best videos, and the Best non geopolytical one. Kudos!!!!

That sound dub was perfectly placed over their video of them playing and cracked me tf up

I'm glad the industry collapsed. In 2003 my local music shop wanted $19.99 for a CD that had come out in 1994 and that's when I bowed out.

"The Recording Industry is evil" Yeah and bears still shit in the woods

Great video, you always make the topic matter interesting 👍

14:00 I love it ( the Story , "Mwaa" , *Finger on thumb to mouth and moved to sky)

In conclusion, pirating stuff is cool, and making music industry CEOs cry is cooler.

Well done explainer! There is one detail you left out that causes havoc as well. American copyright laws do not align with copyright laws in the rest of the world. Most notoriously is terrestial royalties that are in Europe legit to collect but non-existant in America. Its weird and the copyright system of music requires a total global overhaul to meet current and future standards. I am working on it.

The use of the Utah state capitol for lobbying was on point. 16:57

Great job on this video. I was young and aware back then. I tried to explain the issues but few really cared. Oh well…