Record Companies are Fucking Idiots

After looking through a variety of YouTube videos (including my OWN; The Downward Spiral) I have decided that a huge rant is in order.

It seems that if you upload a video to YouTube that includes copyrighted music - and the stupid fucking record company that owns the copyright manages to catch you - then YouTube have to mute the audio track on the video or even remove the video all together. Thus making your video fucking useless and your time and effort wasted.

Now, you may be thinking that record companies are doing the right thing by protecting their assets and stopping others from making money off it. Well that's complete bullshit and I'll tell you why.

What the stupid fucking record companies don't understand is that someone could discover a particular song for the first time on a particular video, enjoy it and then go out a buy it because they enjoyed it. Removing the song doesn't help them AT ALL, it's not like people are gonna go to YouTube EVERY TIME they want to listen to a particular song is it? How ass backwards would that be? By letting people listen to the song in the first place you are giving people the opportunity to sample the music that otherwise wouldn't have bothered to listen before (because they either had no interest in it or the never heard of it before or whatever).

Imagine a time when you have had no interest in watching a certain film because of whatever reason, but you watch it with your friends because they decided to put it on and it has cost you nothing to watch it. Afterwards, you realise you enjoyed the film. Later down the line the sequel comes out in the cinema and you remember that when you saw the first film (for FREE) you enjoyed it and you go and pay to see the sequel at the cinema or even wait for the DVD release and buy the box-set of all the films. Does this sound familiar? This is exactly how watching a music video on YouTube can work. You watch it, enjoy it and then possibly go and buy the album or even just download a couple of songs off iTunes.

For some reason, record companies seem to think that because a song is on YouTube then they are not making money out of it. Are they for real? Are they really that dumb? Clearly they are.