Fuck Content ID - Dan Bull

Shoutout to YouTube’s official recommended copyright-free

Audio Library for this amazing instrumental

One of over seven hip-hop instrumentals in the Audio Library

Dear YouTube, this here’s to you

To tell you that your new rules are poo-poo

I don’t know who does your business stuff lately

But it’s an understatement that they’ve pissed us off greatly

Redirecting funds from the kids who have made you

And giving them straight to the pricks in the grey suits

That couldn’t give a fuck for the YouTube community

For a quick buck, there’s nothing that they wouldn’t do to me

NerdCubed got struck for publishing a photo

That contained nothing but his own fucking logo

My mate Gavin got caught making wealth

For using music that he stole from himself

Boogie hates it too, though he may not be connected

But when the walls fall down, he’ll be affected

With none of us protected, we’re on some Wild West shit

But with an automated sheriff, no-one gets arrested

(EGHH!) INFRINGING CONTENT DETECTED!

I suggest you don’t even bother to contest it

This is the winter of our discontent

Where Google gives consent

For you to nick content

From YouTubers too puny to put up a defence

They’re glued;

stuck in cement

It’s too tough to prevent

This is the winter of our discontent

Copyright trolls roll up and we are stiffed on rent

This is the winter of our discontent

Ideally you’d give back every stolen cent

It’s like a labyrinth of licenses and lies insisting

I have nicked shit but I’ll fight life and limb to lift it

I know I might have the littlest voice

But I will always call bullshit if given the choice

We can only make change with enough noise

So let me demonstrate how simple the system is to exploit

(One) First find a YouTuber who you want to screw up

(Two) Pick a new video they’ve done or one that blew up

(Three) Submit a copy to the CMS stash, click

You’ll earn cash quick the minute that it matches

The paper’s taken from the creator that made it straight away

Without the need to even briefly speak to people face to face

You can just take them on a Kafkaesque paper chase

Because there’s no accountability within the database

So if they’re making complaints, you can ignore these

And keep on earning from their work for up to four weeks

When the four weeks is up, you just release the claim

Keep the change and start the whole thieving scheme again

It’s easy taking candy from a baby, piece of cake

Google don’t give a fuck, they get their profit either way

Somehow you managed to put out a statement

That brushed aside every single last complaint, look:

You didn’t mention your system dismisses fair use

Or how we can reclaim our redirected revenues

That guilty until proven innocent is an affront

And that to prove your innocence can take several months (cunts)

Nah, you just published a puff piece

If I’d point out animal abuse, you’d say «Look at these puppies :)»

Game publishers have explicitly stated

They don’t want to claim on any Let’s Plays created

They’re actually pissed off about the changes

Just as much as we are, you don’t have to go to Cambridge

University to see it’s proven universally

Your circuitry needs urgent work to cease us losing permanently

It’s news worthy of a parody, Ron Burgundy

We’re swirling in a purgatory that’s worthy of East Germany

The Berlin Wall is like the strikes we’re receiving

Now where’s David Hasselhoff when you need him?

This wall is obviously going to fall before we stop

So you might as well call it off, Mister Gobrachev

I used to love YouTube and what it stood for

But good Lord, now the scrap heap is all it’s good for

Independent YouTubers made YouTube

Then YouTube got huge and shafted them up the arse

On behalf of the traditional dinosaur entertainment industry

Keeping us locked in the 20th century since the 20th century

Thanks, so much… Bellends