Dan Bull - Fuck Content ID lyrics

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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 suit's
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