The Internet’s Most Criminal Industry 

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Anti piracy people are delusional. I'm not paying a bunch of money per month to each subscription service when i can watch everything in the same place for free

Napster, Kazaa, eMule, Azureus, Limewire, ųtorrent. I am happy I got to use all of those softwares . Golden days of the web. Nowadays you can barely find a stream to watch a football match that's how far they crushed "piracy".

I saw you sneakily deleting that precious video 📷📸

The casette roger logo looks cool, makes me want to download some more music.

Always entertaining to watch these videos. Have you considered a video on Silkroad. The story behind it is a bit crazy.

Got a receipt mate?? Oral contract, not worth the paper it's printed on.. 😂😂😂

We're not going to see an end to media piracy as long as we have media and a monetary system. Where there's a demand, there will always be a market. This is why prohibition is always at best a stop-gap solution to something and at worst is destructive and unjust. Of course, there are things that are so abhorrent that we have no better option, but they're best not mentioned on YT.

Why join the Navy, when you can be a Pirate? But seriously, $400 university textbooks and 6 separate streaming channels just to watch some shows and to go through uni ? I'd rather sail beneath the black flag

Why would the British Film Institute (BFI) launch an anti music piracy campaign? You meant the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

I love it. Arrrg matey.

Piracy is a distribution problem, not a money problem. To deal with it those who are doing this he distributing need to think about what they’re doing wrong.

The term 'piracy' is just used by corporations in order to make it seem more shady. 'Piracy' literally means stealing. But copying something by definition isn't stealing. Stealing something leaves the original owner with one less object (eg. if you steal a CD from a shop, that shop no longer has the CD). But if you copy something, the owner hasn't lost anything. So instead it's just copyright infringement. In fact, in a court case, the judge told the MPAA that they were no longer allowed to refer to it as 'piracy'.

Piracy will never go away. As 3D printing technology advances, physical objects can now be "pirated". Piracy will always be one of the main driving forces of innovation. Piracy will always pop up, when a system is broken.

Been a pirate since the days of Napster and Limewire. Mostly out of necessity, growing up quite poor. There are many studies that show that piracy isn't a net loss, loads of times people will still purchase legal content, when able to, because they enjoy owning it still. Many other people would never have bought the content they are pirating in the first place, so no sale was lost. I've pirated many a game to try it as a demo and then bought the game after to support the devs & have the nice Steam integration stuff. I have a giant physical DVD collection but all my stuff is on my Plex server so I can watch it so much easier.

Totally pirated this video as I'm using adblock

Steve Jobs was right. I remember not 'wanting' to illegally download the music (Bear in mind I was like 11). I always felt guilty downloading songs illegally but it was the only way to listen to the song on my mp3 player, or my phone, whilst on the go. Otherwise I could only listen to this stuff on CD in my bedroom. We rely so much on music on the go now, while we jog, gym, sit on trains- but people don't realise that back then it was a unheard of, apart from walkmans, and good luck jogging with one of those badboys

All content on torrent sites "being full of viruses" is nothing but urban legend (mostly spread by copyright holders), LOL. Other than that, nice video, Jimmy!

Hey Jimmy, inventor of BitTorrent here. Wanted to let you know that I've never gotten into legal trouble and am doing fine, but have moved on to other things now. Watch you channel regularly, keep up the good work.

The early years of the internet, what a time to be alive... Piracy will never die.. Great video as always Jimmy!

They say that for every pound lost to pirated casette tapes, at least one more pound was gained from new people being introduced to music they otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to. So they then discovered some new favourite artists, and wanted to own the proper record rather than just a copied tape.

It's the year 2000 all over again: the entertainment industry got lazy and greedy again and assume they can get away with it because there's no alternative. Boy were they wrong, again.

9:03 The 'you wouldnt steel a car' music was actually pirated haha :D

I think piracy is good not for thé big companys but it is good for humanity

I entered college and got my first ever high speed internet connection and my first CD burner in 1999... the heyday of Napster. I discovered so much great music I hadn't heard on the radio. A lot of them were unreleased live recordings you couldn't buy if you wanted to.

I'm from Argentina, and due to our always shitty economy we must resort to piracy to get everything, music, vídeo games, movies. Most international companies, such as Nintendo for example don't think we are a worthy market so they don't release anything in our country, and if we want to get their products we will have to find "other " ways

Piracy will never go away, and I bet the vast majority of people that download content don't do it out stealing, but because it is the only option. I am subscribed to 5 streaming services. However, some movies, especially older ones are not available in my country because of copyright laws, and in some cases the movie is only available in a dubbed version, so if you want to see the Original Audio Version, piracy is the only way to do it. Or you have to get a VPN in order to rent it from a country that does have it available. It makes zero sense. I had a DVD collection of over 200 films but when I moved from the USA to Europe, i could no longer play them because of the region restrictions. Should I buy all 200+ DVDs again or buy a jail broken DVD player in the black market? Some of the restrictions simply don't make any sense and continue to give piracy a healthy demand to continue. The Entertainment industry need to get their shit together.

everyone will remember this legendary movement.. but the evolution of the music industry was inevitable

Theft is taking something away from someone else but piracy is copying it without taking anything from the other person

All my childhood (I`m from Russia, by the way) I was surrounded by torrents, kids shared they "hards" (HDD), CD's and tapes. Our logic is simple - if it's on the Internet - it's free, because Internet - for connection between people all around the world. Also we was raised by communists and sharing - is a number 1 rule for us. Later I became an artist myself and my position... Still for free content! You want money for your stuff? Make it offline, bro. Once it goes Net - will never go back! By the way - Internet access cost money, device also cost money, time to be able to watch something cost money. Why I need to pay more just for a few tracks? Hell no! And in our days when everyone can "cancel" my favorite show or music and delete it from history... No, I'm cool with pirates, thanks)

There are plenty of people (myself included) who view piracy not only as ok, but as morally right (at least in certain circumstances). They say that copyright is detrimental to creativity and cultural evolution. Corporations don't bother creating new work, instead they just keep reusing everything. And all the IPs of the past are locked away by copyright, hoarded by the corporations, inaccessible to those who would like to use them in their own creative works. Some great cultural works have been made using public domain characters, like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for example. We'd have so much more incredible examples using well-known fictional characters if it wasn't for copyright. Or at the very least, if it wasn't for the ridiculous length of the copyright term we have nowadays. Originally, copyright was only ever meant to last a couple decades, in order to make sure the original author was compensated for his work. Now there are films where literally everyone who ever had anything to do with them are long dead, and a corporation is still hoarding it, squeezing every last penny out of it, to the detriment of culture and society. So they view it as right to pirate any works like these, and to only pay for original work by smaller independent artists.

I loved Napster! Was always searching for the few T1 or T3 connections 😂

I'm gonna try and explain the way I think about "piracy" but suck at explaining shit through text. Let's say I just bought the newest hot movie that came out on DVD (or whatever). I can legally invite you to come watch it with me. I can legally let you borrow it. I can legally let you come watch or borrow it from my home whenever you want. PPV. If I bought it, I can invite the whole city to come watch. Thank you kind friends for sharing your entertainment with me.

One thing not touched on is video games and one of the large reasons behind "pirating" the game. Cracking and removing Denuvo from the games, amongst other nonsense, allows people to play single player games without an online connection. Let alone the huge performance increases without spyware running in the background of your system. Not only is it reporting that you have a legit copy, it is also scraping any and all data about your system, the software installed and used, bookmarks, etcetera. I would gladly pay $ for the new Harry Potter game to try out, but with their nonsense imbedded in it, it is a hard pass. If I ever have the urge to try it out, you can safely assume it will be a cracked copy so I do not need a constant online connection. Final Fantasy 15 left such a sour taste in my mouth after purchase, I ended up using a cracked copy that not only runs better, but does not require "calling home" to wherever. Game companies that cry a river about profit loss are scum. If their product was good, people would buy it regardless. Good Old Games sells games without any sort of protection or requirements to be online. With the sales of Witcher and Cyberpunk, this seems to be working just fine for them. Oh, and screw Metallica. Go cry in your gold toilet. The majority of money earned by music artists are with their live performances. Pirating a song for free, then enjoying the music enough to then buy a ticket to a show, is a much bigger profit versus someone buying a CD and sitting at home for the live show.

YAR MATEYS! Them High Seas are the way for me! Shutting down Napster just opened the floodgates and did the complete opposite- hilarious!

Id like to talk a little about piracy in the anime industry, because as of right now, its not only the most convenient way to consume that content, but also often the best quality and oftentimes the most ethical. Lots of people pirate anime and instead of paying a subscription to a service like Crunchyroll where the money goes to Crunchyroll who take a cut then to production companies who take a cut and then finally trickles down to the people who mad the content you enjoyed, and instead donate to a fund like the new animator dormitory project or one of the dozens of ways to directly give the industry your money. Aside from that anime also heavily sufferers from the everything is on 12 different services problem and on top of that many of the pirating sites offer faster loading times, higher quality video and player features that other places simply do not. A prime example of this would be crunchyrolls abject refusal to switch to a proper video player and insistence on using flash.

Keep in mind, you're strictly referring to the sharing of art. That we live in a society where the sharing of art is illegal it a testament of our dark times.

I pay to stream music these days. But with the drastic decline in TV/Film over the past decade, particularly America and its politics invading everything. I now pirate more than ever, and will pay for a legit dvd after if it impresses.

Two Jimmy videos in a day makes it a good day.

You really missed the mark by stating that money was the only motive. The communities thrived thanks to generous seeders and up-loaders.

They had to stop playing the "you wouldn't steal a car" ad because they didn't pay for the copyright to use the song 😂 irony at its finest

One thing that has and will continue to advance the world of piracy in many forms is anime/manga. We have so few options on where to watch these legit, or even none at all. We used to have to wait for the dvd/bluray release, if we were lucky. It has gotten better with sites like crunchyroll sure, but there's so many that don't get brought over officially so that means you have to pirate to watch some... If a streaming service can fix that issue, I'll gladly pay, but until one steps up and does better, there's other options.

You can't sink the ship. - Even after raiding the servers in Sweden & arresting the men behind TPB. It still sails onwards.

I’m longing for the day when Star Trek food replicators become a reality and I can scan my takeaway into the machines memory menu, or I can buy or downloads pirated trademarked complete meals like KFC or a fat New York Pizzas.

I would argue that Daniel Ek and the other early founders of Spotify had a massive impact in the decline of piracy, more so than Apple.

"Piracy" is only problem in rich western countries where the entertainment industry holds power. Elsewhere ppl would even go to the streets - if not for other reasons - because culture is public domain and outlawing piracy is a Karen move.

piracy my beloved .

I’ve never uploaded a single torrent in my life so here’s to the pirates 🍻 thanks for all the movies, games and books

I may or may not have pirated adobe products and similar growing up which not only enabled me to excel in the subjects by taking learning beyond the classroom but helped grow my passion for what it is today and ultimately land me with the job I am now currently in.

Piracy is always one step ahead.

Piracy is not theft. Its making a copy, how can you steal something when the original is left in-tact

"[Steve Jobs], as an engineer himself..." Lol wut

I'll happily pay $2 a song if I don't have to pay monthly for the service and if the service goes tits up, I won't lose my library.

I've never had issues downloading MUSIC only from pirate bay, and continue to use it today.

I would never have started pirating music if it was affordable and I didn't have to travel an hour to a store in the hopes that they might have a certain CD in stock. Greedy bands like Metallica and greedy labels got what theu deserved. I still bought CDs for like £3-5 at gigs from smaller bands selling their EPs directly

Growing up poor in Brazil and without internet, pirated DVDs and CDs were all i knew. Once i got an original DVD as a bday present and that was my biggest treasure. With internet i started using torrents for movies, music, games.. everything, i hated it, no one wants to risk a bunch of viruses. I'm more than happy to pay for convenience, having all songs on Spotify is amazing for me, having all movies (years ago) on Netflix was a dream. Now we have to start pirating again because what we're expected to pay for the million subscription services is ridiculous. People don't understand how piracy brings valuable culture to poor people, expands horizons.. We don't want to break laws, we dont want to "steal" from the artists, we just want to have easier access to things

'Lars Ulrich was in the very well known band Metallica'. Dude, he still is. Metallica is still going. They just dropped a new album a couple weeks ago.

Piracy is not about making money, sure there are people making money with ads etc, but the ethos behind piracy is pure altruism and not profit making.

Take a hear on the pirate bay song - " Dubioza Kolektiv - Free mp3 song " greetings from Bosnia. ✌️

At least in last decades it's not really that piracy is evolving tech for any better. Today it's more that companies are actively devolving the tech so that they can hold you inside their little bubble and taking subscription money. You can't even use Photoshop unless you logged into Adobe Cloud and same goes for many other tools. I can imagine near future where we'll need to be authorized with google home and have working credit card connected or else our toilets will refuse to flush water. And of course now and then when you're about to flush the water instead it's gonna throw a forced feedback popup designed in such way that you'll hit that 5 star rating just to get the darn thing away from your eyes so that you can flush your stinky shit down.

piracy rocks why tf would you pay for games/movies/songs when millions of other NPCs pay for them

I used to have the Time magazine from the period that dealt with the Napster issue. It is right that Lars was perhaps heavy-handed, but "fans" of the band weren't any better who were crushing CDs. no one was fully aware of the scope of things to come. Lars specifically said in that issue of Time that they were lucky as a band because they were well-off, but what about new bands coming into the market? This whole thing basically kickstarted the streaming revolution and we ended up with Spotify. It's only ironic that only a few years after the Napster thing - you know, when the aforementioned "fans" were poopooing Metallica for being upset about their music going around without control (remember, the whole thing started when an early, still work-in-progress version of "I disappear" started to play ON THE RADIO) - Apple users were raging in the comments sections how the company dared to spam them with a completely free addition of U2's latest album on their phone.

I'm mostly sure that piracy exists nowadays because of how terrible trying to get some things legitimately is, or the service itself being absolute garbage.

The piracy industry will always rise when the entertainment industry gets to greedy

In the 80’s we lived next door to a BBC cameraman, I remember my dad getting “the life of Brian” & a video recorder(on tic). It was the best thing ever, thank u “BBC Dave”.

You skipped the part before napster where we used MIRC to pirate stuff hehehehehe.

They ain’t losing any money from me. I can’t afford to pay for media so it’s either pirate it or don’t experience it. For legal reasons I have never pirated. I have never listen to music. I never never seen a movie.

All i can think of this whole video is the episode of South Park where the poor celebrities cant get a gold plated shark tank bar 🤣🤣

jimmy is such a human

I love watching Survivor and only download that one show.. and also the UFC

There ARE reports* not There is reports

I think it should be legal

in 1999 I looked for new music on the internet, and downloaded it. had been doing that for a few years before that. it was not mainstream, but there was a thriving culture of people who like obscure music sharing it on the internet before napster. also "dave" was using a computer to make the bootlegs, so he totally knew how to turn one on.. LOL.

It's never going away. People will always sail the high seas!!

You wouldn’t steal a policeman’s helmet…

Piracy is a victimless endeavor and always has been

Can you do another culture thing on parkour? Those are my favorite

Is watching a youtube video with an adblocker piracy ?

The hell i wouldn't steal a car. Shit.

Jimmy your work just keeps getting better. Appreciate you!

Corporations was always blind to the marketing that was Piracy. Most bands wouldn't be half the size they was without it, as you say, the main way we found music before the nets booming years was via friends and usually, pirating random stuff to try. Without piracy, we would never try these songs, our friends wouldn't either and we would likely only have a tiny fraction of artists in our library. Not paying tickets to see a random band or some random album in store, so it actually made some bands huge. Arguably the story doesn't vary for video games, companies pouted as they "lost millions" but most would purchase the game if it was good, the thing is, older times video games gave you a demo with a level or mission to beat to try the game, that was free and let you decide, as time evolved, these faded and you was expected to shell out massive prices for new games which you might hate. It's never helped with companies being greedy, a video game used to cost £30 (UK) where now some companies want to charge £80-£90 (3x it's original price), some "deluxe" editions costing multiple hundreds (I have seen some for £300+) for next to nothing and a broken product, of course there is a increased production cost and inflation but companies use the "costs more to make" excuse all the time and the product is usually of lower standard with a 20% increase in cost. Thus, pirates begin to rise again. Same with bad movies/tv shows destroying IP's to please the "woke" people, no one really wants it and if you want to try to see if the new disney film is worth more than 20 seconds of your time... better put on the pirate hat, not worth robbing yourself for a arguably terrible movie.

Back in the Limewire days I was lucky never to have to play that cyber Russian roulette... Incidentally because a friend's Dad worked in Russia and we could give him a shopping list of albums and movies and he would get 99% perfect copies from a big, open market and bring them for us when he flew back. Waiting a month or however long for them to arrive was probably still quicker than my tiny village's dialup anyway 😅 ^ALLEGEDLY*

Piracy is on the rise for TV and films because you need a dozen different subscriptions to have access to the content.

Glad that everyone seems to agree that piracy is not stealing. There are many shows, movies and other media that I would have never come to love AND SPEND MONEY ON if I didn't get introduced to it for freee by something that was pirated.

The only thing Lars was a whore to was Apple who would shortly release iTunes. He went after Napster, the fans who couldn't afford to find the music that was only available on Napster. Did anyone ever ask if he tried to find the studio employee who released the song? No, because that wasn't a priority. I hope he's happy.

I cannot recommend enough the episode about the Pirate Bay by the Darknet Diaries. One of its founders talked to Jack Rhyrsder, the podcast author. There was also a bit of a cultural clash between them. A lovely piece of the contemporary history.

Steve Jobs was not an engineer

How @#£%in DARE YOU! Malcolm who? Mc Loren? Its McLaren, just like the lovely supercars/hypercars. Mc Laren. Who were the creators of the greatest roadcar ever made, the McLaren F1! That McLaren!

@#£% Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney and all that shite! Just find yourself a good pirate streaming site and get it all for @#£% all! Thats what I've been doing for the last 4 years watching it through my Xbox (you dont get viruses then) I'm watching films that aint even hit UK cinemas in full HD for absolutely @#£% all! The same with any popular TV shows plus, unlike Netflix n Amazon, it also includes old shows, movies, foreign stuff with working subtitles. These are so @#£%in good that if i read about or remember some really old often obscure film from decades ago, 90% of the time they've got it! Netflix and Amazon have a shit selection of films, Amazon being the worst for padding their numbers out with shite that looks like it was filmed on a mobile and that is only 20 minutes long!

I understand when musicians say that by pirating their music they are actively losing income, my husband is a musician himself so i can understand the issue (he is not famous or known, he does mainly session work for other people). However, it's always the ultra famous, ultra rich musicians who complain about this stuff. Never the smaller artists who get paid peanuts to record parts on a famous musician's album/song - and who REGULARLY gets all the credit. It literally makes zero difference to them because they make their money elsewhere. I'm sure Metallica don't appreciate their music being given to people "for free" but i honestly struggle to sympathize with them since, right after the whole Napster situation, James Hatfield was seen going on a shopping spree at high end boutiques in Milan and Rome. Guess Napster didn't hit you THAT bad, did it? They also make shit ton on money in other ways, especially merchandise (£35 for a tshirt made by slave labour in China?) and the ridiculous prices of their live concerts. Back in the 70s you could see Led Zeppelin for £7, but if you wanna see Metallica today you have to pretty much sell one of your kidneys. Sorry, but they get no sympathy from me. They're still incredibly wealthy.

Is the tried to delete part clickbait? Love the videos but god damn was this a fun nostalgia trip. Been following kim and off an on followed most the other ppl involved in pirating/p2p stuff. I heard the pirate bay guys went to jail and im like, shit man hope they didnt have to go through hell or anything. They dont deserve it to be honest.

without piracy of the 90s-00s, in the last 20yrs i would have (most probably) not owned as many original cds, cassetes (hell yeah!) and other merch as i own now, i would not have gone to several dozens of festivals, hundreds of concets and would not have organized 3 festivals myself. i think i've paid back... ofc, mostly to the alternative scene 😊

Piracy is a godsend. What if you can't buy something legitimately because its no longer available anywhere? Well, pirates got your back. Why should I have to pay hundreds of dollars a month for streaming services when I can just click download on some shady Russian website?! Plus, if I like something after pirating it, I might buy it anyway just to support the creator.

i consider myself one of those people who prefer legality over piracy. if i have the choice, i'd rather spend some money on something i like than risking legal trouble. on the note of streaming platforms and the ever growing list of services that want you to subscribe however i stopped giving a shit. last time i owned a tv is about 20years ago and since i dont want to work for my subscriptions and worry about getting food on the table i mostly stopped watching any of the stuff behind those vod paywalls. when a movie is released that sparks my interest i go to the cinema and pay the premium price, f disney+, f netflix and all the other shit

God CDs were rough. There were onky a few i bought where i feel i got my money's worth. 20+ bucks for one or two songs sucked. The thing was that by the late 90s cds were old technology and they were still charging enormous amounts for them. If they'd been less greedy and brought the price down a shitload more would've been sold amd they probably would've held on a few more years. And yeah lars Ulrich was always a bit of a douche but he lost all my respect with that. He genuinely acted like the public was taking food from his kids or something.

About the last part, that's precisely why people tend to always pirate anime. Forget platforms, some of it is straight up region locked, so if you're from a specific place, even if a platform has it, you may not have access to it. And good luck ordering physical CD copies from Japan. This stuff's both a pain in the ass and expensive. Then they wonder why piracy isn't dying down in the industry.

I’m ok with buying digital or physical content, but if it’s not available for purchase in my country than fuck it, I’ll just download it. Especially now in Russia we are unable to buy many things. New movies won’t come out in theatres, new music doesn’t appear on Apple Music. All the online game stores like steam or any other are mostly unavailable. What should just regular people do? Getting free stuff from the internet is in our mentality, but it was changing lately, and now we are back to the times when nothing is available legally, so what are we supposed to do?

what happend to the outher video

I remember the days when people were trying to download X-men Origins Wolverine. Very often, you'd get a version of the movie where the VFX wasn't finished. So you'd see random polygons, lines and text in the middle of battle scenes. 😆

Proud pirate since the 70's and cassette tapes. Hell, when I was a little kid my mom would sneak a cassette recorder into the movie theater and record the audio and we could listen to the movie again at home. It's in my blood.