Poorly thought out anti-piracy measures usually have a way of causing more piracy. On the gaming side of things the Playstation Vita is a pretty funny example of this; one of the reasons (emphasis on "one of") it became sony's worst selling Playstation is because they went overboard with the anti-piracy measures (proprietary memory cards that only went up to 64GB (which is pretty weak seeing as each game took up about as much space as a typical 7th gen console game) and were incredibly overpriced, the content manager system that required you to manage USB file transfers through the Vita itself (the idea being that the Vita wouldn't show any illicit files stored on a PC), the ability to only download photos through the internet browser, etc), and hilariously despite Sony still trying to patch the console after they supposedly gave up on it (a move they've also down with the PS3 and PSP on a couple of occasions) the Vita is now ridiculously easy to hack to the point that you don't even need to plug it directly into your computer, and alongside the usual piracy hacks (one of which gives you free access to pretty much every game on the Playstation Store) they also added the ability to plug Micro SD cards into the game card slot which allows the storage to be expanded by at least 400GB and even made some of the Vita games run more smoothly by giving the user the ability to overclock the CPU (possibly the GPU as well but I'm not 100% sure). And if that wasn't enough, the Vita can now emulate the PSP's operating system via a homebrew app called Adrenaline, and can also play Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance games. Basically the hackers have managed to keep the console interesting whilst Sony have apparently ditched the portable console market altogether. The PSP has a similar story, but the PSP's story is even funnier because it gradually got easier and easier to hack the console despite Sony's patches. In the early days you had to modify the inside of the PSP's removable battery to turn it into what the hacking community referred to as a Pandora battery. Skip forward to today and hacking a PSP is basically just a case of downloading some files, putting them in the right folders, and then launching some games in a specific order. Sorry if that was a little long winded, just thought I'd show how your rule (albeit a slightly modified version of your rule) applies on the gaming side of things as well.
@@MythicSuns What's funny about that is Sony for example doesn't understand that not everyone lives in a 1st world country and can't drop 60$ on every game they want to play, which is why PC gaming is so much more popular here in eastern Europe or at least was until 4-5 years ago now PCs got expensive as hell. But the PSP was a pretty popular system because it was easy to hack and people charged you like $15 to do it for you. If people weren't able to hack it nobody would've bought it.
To be honest if he's gonna make her go through all that and then go "Oh well I wasn't gonna have her pay" I'd sue for emotional damage. The stress from a hit like that would be unreal.
That last joke might be one of the best I've heard in one of your videos bravo. Yeah I don't get it either. Like I can understand when the label does this cause they want to punish as examples but Clapton's just being an absolute tool.
At least with Nintendo it’s really not good at all. $50 a year and you get very subpar emulation with a lackluster amount of games. The Switch Online service is a disgrace to these old games. Inaccurate rendering of effects, greater than normal input lag, lacking certain features, or flat out corrupting your save files. It’s not a good service and I’ll gladly pirate those games (and all the other ones that aren’t being sold) and play them on either original hardware, or cycle accurate emulators like Higan.
I disagree. I've read their statement... and at the end of the day, if you work in music copyright, I certainly hope you can understand why there should have been NO response to this whatsoever. If someone looked at this woman's eBay account, saw she was selling ONE copy of this ONE CD, and that's the only infraction? It should have been completely ignored. Nothing was gained by Clapton's side, nor was anything lost, and it would not have set any precedent that mass bootlegging is ok.
@ADoseofBuckley his team at Reprise Records (as well as many artists with other labels) have an automated system that tracks down the attempt of illegal sales of copyrighted material. The CD in question was an illegal duplication of a broadcast. The 3rd party mandated representatives did send a variation of a C&D (a privilege especially with 1st license refusal). She was told to take down the listing without any further consequence. She challenged it AGAINST her own legal council's advice. She rolled the dice and lost.
Not even 100th as brutal as being worth several hundred million dollars, and personally suing a widow for like $4000k (plus legal fees) for trying to sell one of your fucking CD's I'd say. Fuck Clapton for this one - and I listened to him all throughout my childhood.
@@thecognitiverambler8911 he didn't even do this. This is a team of lawyers who file thousands of cases a year...and 4,000...not 4M - which was never paid. The media wins in this one for getting people to talk about this non-story.
well this lady wasn't able to sell one at 11 euros, so I think this is a gonna be a slow building empire LOL unless you put something in it people actually want like cocaine. (the drug not the song)
@@larey9484 He definitely went on a massive racist rant in the 70's on stage, now the footage has vanished off of TH-cam and seemingly everywhere else but I know I've seen it. But this bootleg shit is the shitty cherry on top of that anti-masking song he released last year (?), who told him that was a savvy idea? Probably the same dickhead that told him to pursue this bootleg shit (or at least not intervene and let it go).
"Don't Download This Song" perfectly sums up the music industry in general. Let's also not forget the fact that DMCA is the monster it is now thanks largely to Metallica going after Napster way back when. They got their own brand of karmic justice when their BlizzCon live performance was muted on Twitch (replaced with 8-bit music) because of DMCA concerns.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'm so glad you came back to TH-cam. I'm glad you're finding success here and your content is the best it's ever been. Thanks for making me laugh a few times a week.
Thank you. Obviously my viewership isn't what it used to be, but the people who are still coming every week to watch it are what's important, and I'm glad they're being entertained by what I'm doing and recognizing that my writing might be the best it's ever been.
I always say if you liked it before the offending incident or at least knowledge of it, pass. If you start liking or continue to support, I'm not into that for most offenses that bring up this argument anyway. But especially no remorse and doubling down they're the victim (Chris Brown, R Kelly), I don't want your stuff near me. Harder with like film or shows with hundreds involved. Music is way more focused and producers often know their artist screwed up or is outright evil.
@@ironmaidenjr.8471 well I mean obviously he has no power in major health leadership, which is good, but I’m still definitely gonna have less respect for him as a result
@@ironmaidenjr.8471 You may think it's harmless, but the more people who put out the shady, unfounded belief that vaccines are bad, the more people there will be not vaccinating their children from easily prevented and painful afflictions.
Clapton is overrated. I'd put Harrison, Lennon, and McCartney, over him. Hell that's not even getting into people like Les Paul, B.B. King, SRV, Jeff Beck, and so many other guitar legends. 🎸
On top of their love affair with all things Clapton and Zeppelin, Rolling Stone has a major bias against certain genres (not to mention countries) when it comes to guitarists (and musicians in general) - in their list of Top 100 guitarists they have Alex Lifeson at #98, Dimebag Darrell at #92, J Mascis at #86, Joe Perry at #84, Richie Blackmore at #50, SRV at #12, and no mention of Yngwie Malmsteen (among others) whatsoever, yet they list The Edge at #38, George Harrison at #11 (wtf!), and Pete Townshend at #10 (seriously? Townshend is a better guitarist than SRV???). Supposedly they had some fairly well-known guitarists on the voting panel, but I wonder how much weight their votes _actually_ had.
Eric Clapton is a musical legend and his songs are some of my favourites - being routinely on my playlist. However he is a complete fuckwomble and if I met him it'd be a toss up between getting an autograph or giving him the finger. I long ago managed to separate the art from the artist.
Honestly when it comes to your favorite artists, I think it's best to maybe not even follow them on social media and not read any news about them. A lot of times it will just result in being disappointed with them as a person at best.
And this is what happens when people who are this petty are given the power and money to do whatever they want. The closing line at the end was well deserved given what this guy did.
Yeah. I remember the early days of TH-cam (granted I was only like six years old) when you could use copyrighted music in your videos and no one said jack shit. Now you have use free non copyrighted stuff we’ve heard a trillion times to avoid being sued, AND you still have to credit people like Kevin Macleod.
I think I'd probably have to go with Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, and Bo Didley if it was on the basis of "what these people did for the artform and how much the music world owes them in terms of their contributions", if I was to say FAVORITES though, I'm sure I have to include Dimebag Darryl in my top 3.
Just remember: Clapton's racism and support of the BNP was part of the reason behind the creation of the "Rock Against Racism" concert. He's also an antivaxxer and believes COVID isn't a big deal.
Dave is definitely one of my influences. He lets the notes ring out and sing during solos. Or even Paul Kossoff! Both Gilmour and Kossoff show that you can be good just playing tasty soulful solos. Not just Slowhand.
The individual cases (9000 per song) are intimidation tactics and trying to set an example. Completely agree that it should be a dollar a song. Maybe 2 bucks a song if there's a hardline about it. Artists and labels only reinforce why pirating exists with cases like these. It's sad.
Worth keeping in mind he had just suffered the death of his infant son and had severe addiction problems at the time. He has since shown significant remorse for how he behaved during that period of his life. Doesn't excuse his behaviour, but I don't think it accurately represents who he is now.
Meanwhile, The Grateful Dead have a monthly service that offers its fans a bootleg CD from one of their live shows for one flat rate. Eric Clapton maybe a great guitarist but he's a crap person. Besides, Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Rory Gallagher, Vernon Reid, Jimmy Page, Kevin Shields, Jack White, Dimebag Darrell and may other players are much better guitarists and don't have the baggage Clapton has.
I would definitely argue that copyrights should be limited in length and go back to what they were before Disney made them last practically forever. Great video as always. Always keep up the great work.
Yep every time that fucker mickey gets close to the public domain Disney Disney’s it up and bribes the courts to extend it I believe the last case was forever minus a day or 100 years after the creator dies
@@Telsun78 A number of musicians lost out to others (before Disney ever got involved) because they didn't buy a copyright on their song and then someone else does a cover of it and gets all the money because theirs was more popular.
Which is a travesty, in my opinion. Large parts of our culture - people's identities - are owned by corporations, and generations of people inspired by past art can't make art based off of the things that inspired them or they'll get sued into oblivion.
Say what you want about Stephanie Meyers (the Author of twilight) but she never came for E.L. James (the Author of 50 shades of grey) and she basically stole her idea minus the vampires. The books and the movies are very similar.
It's incredibly ironic that Eric Clapton sounds so close to Eric Cartman, and what he did is definitly something Cartman would do. The example's funny too, because Cartman would definitly beat someone's ass for a cupcake. lol
I bought an Amon Amarth album digitally from Amazon, and then a week or so later received a whole packet of papers stapled together detailing all these songs I "stole". I called these people saying I didn't steal this album, I have the receipts and they were not having it. I scoured these papers and they were dated on a day I wasn't even home and have definitive proof of not being home. Idk how this happened, but ultimately I had to pay $300 for this album I legally bought.
Amazon keeps digital receipts. Could have provided those as counter proof instead of paying the $300. But that's hindsight. The music industry is a mixed bag of fuckery right now and it sucks.
Oh I'm sure they would. They're doing it wrong. Punishing the users in the way they do is ultimately a waste of resources. If you're going to imprison these people, at least force them into a proper rehab? And then punish the scumbags who push drugs in neighborhoods, who make drugs, etc. Treating the symptoms doesn't generally cure the disease. I guess maybe they think "if people knew there was such harsh consequences, they wouldn't do it, and then there'd be no one to sell to so people would just stop making it" but that's not likely. I mean ultimately there's no real solution in that exact situation, addicts will abuse something, whether it's legal or not... it wouldn't be better for these people to just drink legal alcohol instead... but ultimately they've proven they don't want a solution. They WANT this revolving door situation. It makes more money.
@@ADoseofBuckley Kind of like how they "punished" the billionaire Sackler family for pushing drugs. Which is a bigger joke? Drug industry or music industry?
@@ADoseofBuckley Interestingly, this is what happens rather often. Drug addicts get off the illegal drugs just to end up addicted to alcohol. If the underlying issue isn't resolved, they'll never be able to live drug-free.
I understand you wanted to make a contrast between Clapton’s story and opening about video game roms, but it’s a terrible take to say Nintendo can toss up crappy ROM versions of their game and paying $50 with a paltry library is in anyway fair. The archiving and preservation of video games is in a terrible state as it is already and yes, there are games impossible to play or get ahold of without roms. My one gripe, good video and really disappointing to hear about one of my favorite guitarists, I’m one of the old bastards that listen to you that has a copy of Unplugged
“Knock on Wood” and “Sunshine of Your Love” are also covers Most of Eric’s work is either a series of covers or that of songs about George Harrison’s wife (“Layla”, “Wonderful Tonight”, and “She’s Waiting”, for example) To paraphrase Eric’s thoughts on the blues, For most people, it stems from pain and oppression, but “for me it was paradise.”
Ironically who’s even buying CDs anymore? So if I have some old CDs in my attic. And I try to sell them I’m likely to be sued if I bought something 20 years ago and it was a bootleg, and I didn’t know, damn I guess I better watch what I sell before someone sues me
The other day I was gonna buy an Eric Clapton CD from the thrift store because I always heard he was legendary…. Legendary ASSHOLE maybe. I am glad I didn’t bought it, instead I got a few CD’s from artists I didn’t know about.
I still think Fogerty vs Fantasy records is a dumber lawsuit, where the artist gets sued for writing a song that sounds similar to one he wrote over 20 years before, but wins in court by bringing his guitar. To me this just seems like a pretty standard copyright lawsuit that happened to be made public for once.
I will forever be careful from now on when selling CDs, Eric Clapton or some other boomer copyright trawler might be around the corner to tell me to C Deez Nuts
i guess if i ever decide to sell "my" CDs, ill sell them to actual people and not leave a digital trace online if thats what it takes to sell something "i" own, absolutely ridiculous that you cant even sell things you paid for....like i get if someone is selling something 100s of times , its clear they would be copywriting it..... but when their selling a single cd..... its clear it isnt copywrite, its just them selling what they paid for...
I can't stand how random everyday people have gotten rich from nothing. It really screws regular people's perception of how siccess actually works in this country.
I'm gonna illegally download the entire Clapton discography, burn it to CD, and then throw the CDs in the trash without ever listening to them. Take that Eric!
Intellectual property rights. She could have gotten her money if she bothered to find out if it's a bootleg first or even regardless sell it to an underground store or in a yard sale rather than publishing that she has it to the world.
@@audiotyresup Sorry. This is indefensible. Pearl Jam, for example, knew there were way too many bootlegs out there so they started selling live recordings instead of going after people selling the bootlegs. As said in the video, Clapton didn't need to take this woman to court. It was ONE CD.
@@davidleary4524 so, you'd rather the lawsuit than the bootleggers being smart enough to not publicize their illegal activities, or advocating legalization of unofficial copies, or what?
Copyright on Twitter is ridiculous. I lost my account I had since 2013 and had built a following and business around because I posted an ACAPELLA song cover, and a video where you can vaguely hear a song playing on a speaker in the next room. Impressive technology that they could even pick that up, but douchey move tbh
Ugh my abusive mother used to sing and play that song called something like "if I could change the world" on repeat -- glad to finally get confirmation all these years later that he's a buttface
If you liked the window joke Buckley made, Anthony Jeselnik (one of my favorite comedians,) has one quite similar to it, give him a listen! Had me laughing pretty hard at the gym
Clapton is yet another vastly overrated musician. I have never been able to stand listening to him... and that's without taking into consideration all the controversy and stupid remarks he's been connected with over the years.
@@Newcastle423 Or so you claim, fanboy. His music still sucks as far as I'm concerned. And it has that has nothing to do with what he's said or done over the years.
In the end, Eric Clapton tried to make it right so it doesn't make him look bad. 🎶But we know he just pretending, trying not to be the villain. Pretending.🎶
I'm not big on memes, but this felt like a good video to end on that one of the two kids cowering in an angle because of a turtle, with captions saying the kids were murderers and serial killers while the turtle was captioned as "selling bootleg cds" yeah I know, kinda lame. I don't come to your comment telling you your sense of humour sucks though.
Me: "Oh look, Mr. Clapton, all of my assets are held by a 501(c)(3) non profit that rescues puppies and kittens from shelters that euthanize them. Are you sure you want me to tell people that your lawsuit will result in you being responsible for the deaths of thousands of puppies and kittens?"
Ok the 50$ a year one is pathetic. Especially considering their previous library. There are maybe 3 games worth playing. Not even about value but majority of games being pirates aren't on that service.
I agree, I think there needs to be a better middle ground. I don't think it should be the "70 years after someone dies" (so they made it in their 30s, they die in their 80s, then 70 more years until it's public domain?) but I also don't think it should be like... the people who are like "once something's 20 years old I should be allowed to have it for free or make money off it".
holy damn, i thought i made the most charmingly horrible jokes around, but Buckley has it with the last one; not even mentioning he was making money off of a tragedy, while his guitar gently weeped. from heaven. . . . i really do like clapton; ginger baker of all people took him to the desert to get off smack, and he stole george harrison's lady, but he has been exxxxxxxxxxtra weird lately
The quickest way to turn the general public to a life of piracy is to do things like this.
Poorly thought out anti-piracy measures usually have a way of causing more piracy. On the gaming side of things the Playstation Vita is a pretty funny example of this; one of the reasons (emphasis on "one of") it became sony's worst selling Playstation is because they went overboard with the anti-piracy measures (proprietary memory cards that only went up to 64GB (which is pretty weak seeing as each game took up about as much space as a typical 7th gen console game) and were incredibly overpriced, the content manager system that required you to manage USB file transfers through the Vita itself (the idea being that the Vita wouldn't show any illicit files stored on a PC), the ability to only download photos through the internet browser, etc), and hilariously despite Sony still trying to patch the console after they supposedly gave up on it (a move they've also down with the PS3 and PSP on a couple of occasions) the Vita is now ridiculously easy to hack to the point that you don't even need to plug it directly into your computer, and alongside the usual piracy hacks (one of which gives you free access to pretty much every game on the Playstation Store) they also added the ability to plug Micro SD cards into the game card slot which allows the storage to be expanded by at least 400GB and even made some of the Vita games run more smoothly by giving the user the ability to overclock the CPU (possibly the GPU as well but I'm not 100% sure). And if that wasn't enough, the Vita can now emulate the PSP's operating system via a homebrew app called Adrenaline, and can also play Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance games. Basically the hackers have managed to keep the console interesting whilst Sony have apparently ditched the portable console market altogether.
The PSP has a similar story, but the PSP's story is even funnier because it gradually got easier and easier to hack the console despite Sony's patches. In the early days you had to modify the inside of the PSP's removable battery to turn it into what the hacking community referred to as a Pandora battery. Skip forward to today and hacking a PSP is basically just a case of downloading some files, putting them in the right folders, and then launching some games in a specific order.
Sorry if that was a little long winded, just thought I'd show how your rule (albeit a slightly modified version of your rule) applies on the gaming side of things as well.
@@MythicSuns even more ironic is that the psp moved even more units because of the hacking and piracy scene. Sony themselves acknowledged this.
@@MythicSuns I remember the days of hacking my PSP. It was the only reason I even got one in the first place.
@@MythicSuns What's funny about that is Sony for example doesn't understand that not everyone lives in a 1st world country and can't drop 60$ on every game they want to play, which is why PC gaming is so much more popular here in eastern Europe or at least was until 4-5 years ago now PCs got expensive as hell. But the PSP was a pretty popular system because it was easy to hack and people charged you like $15 to do it for you. If people weren't able to hack it nobody would've bought it.
a pirates life for me
Ouch...that last joke was... hilarious
Saw your comment
Didn't know what to expect
Was not disappointed
Glorious joke!
It was brutal
And true!
Eric Clapton also appeared as the Preacher in the 1975 film version of "The Who's Tommy".
You never disappoint Buckley.
Oh man, I laughed too hard at that well transition. I am truly doomed.
Clapton is the MOST overrated guitar player ever. What did he ever innovate or create.
beano alone is probably the most important guitar album in rock
A racist rant that inspired part of Pink Floyd's The Wall
That last bit was cold
To be honest if he's gonna make her go through all that and then go "Oh well I wasn't gonna have her pay" I'd sue for emotional damage. The stress from a hit like that would be unreal.
Clapton just about to sue you and all of youtube for this video.
The picture of the well killed me
Bruh, that last joke was no chill, I laughed anyways .
Eric Clapton was king of the A-holes well before this ever happened.
But I still like his music.
Could make a video of destroying the CD and accept donations.
That last part was fantastic. I applaud your writing Buckley, that was brutal but hilarious.
Bahaha. That ending. Brutal!
Honoured to be part of the 12.3% (been following Buck since 2011).
That last joke might be one of the best I've heard in one of your videos bravo.
Yeah I don't get it either. Like I can understand when the label does this cause they want to punish as examples but Clapton's just being an absolute tool.
At least with Nintendo it’s really not good at all. $50 a year and you get very subpar emulation with a lackluster amount of games.
The Switch Online service is a disgrace to these old games. Inaccurate rendering of effects, greater than normal input lag, lacking certain features, or flat out corrupting your save files.
It’s not a good service and I’ll gladly pirate those games (and all the other ones that aren’t being sold) and play them on either original hardware, or cycle accurate emulators like Higan.
What ypu mean buckley my dad loves eric Clapton and I'm only 25, I also love me some layla and you look wonderful tonight from time to time.
He is definitely king of the assholes for this tho
Well... that was depressing.
As someone who works in music copyright, I can tell you that this case was terribly misrepresented by the press, especially by omission.
I disagree. I've read their statement... and at the end of the day, if you work in music copyright, I certainly hope you can understand why there should have been NO response to this whatsoever. If someone looked at this woman's eBay account, saw she was selling ONE copy of this ONE CD, and that's the only infraction? It should have been completely ignored. Nothing was gained by Clapton's side, nor was anything lost, and it would not have set any precedent that mass bootlegging is ok.
@ADoseofBuckley his team at Reprise Records (as well as many artists with other labels) have an automated system that tracks down the attempt of illegal sales of copyrighted material. The CD in question was an illegal duplication of a broadcast. The 3rd party mandated representatives did send a variation of a C&D (a privilege especially with 1st license refusal). She was told to take down the listing without any further consequence. She challenged it AGAINST her own legal council's advice. She rolled the dice and lost.
Perfect intro, perfect outro.
Must be as bad as the Star Wars Holiday Special
Buying a knockoff CD at Woolworths then being sued by the artist 35 years later is peak artist dbag.
I love how Buckley describes in detail the War on Drugs as an example of what people *wouldn't* do.
She would have barely made $6 even if she did sell it. This is beyond ridiculous.
That's the way our intellectual property rights laws go.
Jesus Buckley... that bit at the end was brutal.
Remind me to NEVER piss off Buckley.... That was dark.... but I get it.. we all thought it... he just said it.
@@carebear032007 I didn't think that lol
@@KyleDevy yeah i'd say most aren't out here thinking that...That ain't even remotely funny
Not even 100th as brutal as being worth several hundred million dollars, and personally suing a widow for like $4000k (plus legal fees) for trying to sell one of your fucking CD's I'd say. Fuck Clapton for this one - and I listened to him all throughout my childhood.
@@thecognitiverambler8911 he didn't even do this. This is a team of lawyers who file thousands of cases a year...and 4,000...not 4M - which was never paid. The media wins in this one for getting people to talk about this non-story.
All this story did was give me the desire to start a criminal empire selling only Eric Clapton CDs.
well this lady wasn't able to sell one at 11 euros, so I think this is a gonna be a slow building empire LOL unless you put something in it people actually want like cocaine. (the drug not the song)
Batman's newest nemesis: Clapton Man!
Looking at his Wikipedia page and seeing other things he’s done, this doesn’t shock me in the slightest
Seriously...he has a lot more things to think about at night besides copyright issues lmao
@@larey9484 He definitely went on a massive racist rant in the 70's on stage, now the footage has vanished off of TH-cam and seemingly everywhere else but I know I've seen it. But this bootleg shit is the shitty cherry on top of that anti-masking song he released last year (?), who told him that was a savvy idea? Probably the same dickhead that told him to pursue this bootleg shit (or at least not intervene and let it go).
The masks don't work. Stop lying to yourselves lol
@@ELEcomments Ah yes, masks don’t work at all, which is why hospitals have been using them for so long
@@clementinetea252 it's really only helpful in surgery to prevent droplets going into open wounds. 2 weeks of masks to flatten the curve btw 🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍
I feel like every musician should be made to watch Weird Al's "Don't download this song" and then write an essay about it.
"Don't Download This Song" perfectly sums up the music industry in general. Let's also not forget the fact that DMCA is the monster it is now thanks largely to Metallica going after Napster way back when. They got their own brand of karmic justice when their BlizzCon live performance was muted on Twitch (replaced with 8-bit music) because of DMCA concerns.
Why? Most of them are probably stupid enough to take it literally.
They wouldn’t understand the sarcasm. Weird Al is actually self aware.
@@ShenDoodles “Weird Al is self aware” sounds way more ominous than you meant. Weird Al is no longer human
@@colejohnson66 WEIRD AL IS OMNIPOTENT. HE SEES ALL.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'm so glad you came back to TH-cam. I'm glad you're finding success here and your content is the best it's ever been. Thanks for making me laugh a few times a week.
Thank you. Obviously my viewership isn't what it used to be, but the people who are still coming every week to watch it are what's important, and I'm glad they're being entertained by what I'm doing and recognizing that my writing might be the best it's ever been.
@@ADoseofBuckley Been watching for years man, it’s cool to see how you’ve kept your niche
Separating the art from the artist gets just that much harder every day....
I always say if you liked it before the offending incident or at least knowledge of it, pass. If you start liking or continue to support, I'm not into that for most offenses that bring up this argument anyway. But especially no remorse and doubling down they're the victim (Chris Brown, R Kelly), I don't want your stuff near me.
Harder with like film or shows with hundreds involved. Music is way more focused and producers often know their artist screwed up or is outright evil.
Doesn’t help that Clapton is an antivaxxer too
@@evy2031 God forbid the 76 year old man who is not responsible for anybody else's safety have the incorrect opinion on vaccinations.
@@ironmaidenjr.8471 well I mean obviously he has no power in major health leadership, which is good, but I’m still definitely gonna have less respect for him as a result
@@ironmaidenjr.8471 You may think it's harmless, but the more people who put out the shady, unfounded belief that vaccines are bad, the more people there will be not vaccinating their children from easily prevented and painful afflictions.
Imagine the fbi knocking at your door with receipts for all the thousands of illegal downloads you’ve ever done. Lmao.
Clapton is overrated. I'd put Harrison, Lennon, and McCartney, over him. Hell that's not even getting into people like Les Paul, B.B. King, SRV, Jeff Beck, and so many other guitar legends. 🎸
Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen: Are we jokes to you?
I agree. I have never herd one Clapton song that lives up to his reputation
Would never put a single beatle as a better guitarist. Maybe song writer. He is one of the best, though a major asshole.
Don't forget Brian May.
On top of their love affair with all things Clapton and Zeppelin, Rolling Stone has a major bias against certain genres (not to mention countries) when it comes to guitarists (and musicians in general) - in their list of Top 100 guitarists they have Alex Lifeson at #98, Dimebag Darrell at #92, J Mascis at #86, Joe Perry at #84, Richie Blackmore at #50, SRV at #12, and no mention of Yngwie Malmsteen (among others) whatsoever, yet they list The Edge at #38, George Harrison at #11 (wtf!), and Pete Townshend at #10 (seriously? Townshend is a better guitarist than SRV???). Supposedly they had some fairly well-known guitarists on the voting panel, but I wonder how much weight their votes _actually_ had.
Eric Clapton is a musical legend and his songs are some of my favourites - being routinely on my playlist.
However he is a complete fuckwomble and if I met him it'd be a toss up between getting an autograph or giving him the finger.
I long ago managed to separate the art from the artist.
Honestly when it comes to your favorite artists, I think it's best to maybe not even follow them on social media and not read any news about them. A lot of times it will just result in being disappointed with them as a person at best.
Thanks for clearing that up about Clapton himself being the douche canoe. The early reports were saying it was his overzealous lawyers or somebody.
And this is what happens when people who are this petty are given the power and money to do whatever they want. The closing line at the end was well deserved given what this guy did.
Me after the ending:
“Well that escalated quickly, I mean that really got out of hand fast!” 🤣
Modern day Copyright Law is an absolute clusterfuck
Yeah. I remember the early days of TH-cam (granted I was only like six years old) when you could use copyrighted music in your videos and no one said jack shit. Now you have use free non copyrighted stuff we’ve heard a trillion times to avoid being sued, AND you still have to credit people like Kevin Macleod.
Wtf…Clapton just hit a new low. And I learned something new.… The origin of that depressing as fuck song tears in heaven. Thanks Buckley
What's the difference between a baby and a bag of cocaine?
Eric Clapton wouldn't let a bag of cocaine fall out a window
He's also a racist... So there's that too
And an Anti vaxer. Dont forget that.
I'm just curious Buckley who would you say is the top 3 guitarist ever
I think I'd probably have to go with Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, and Bo Didley if it was on the basis of "what these people did for the artform and how much the music world owes them in terms of their contributions", if I was to say FAVORITES though, I'm sure I have to include Dimebag Darryl in my top 3.
@@ADoseofBuckley How do you feel about Van Halen or Prince
Obviously both very talented, I don't know if they'd be my Top 3 but they're very good.
@@ADoseofBuckley GREAT choices! Also, love your mention of Dimebag!
Just remember: Clapton's racism and support of the BNP was part of the reason behind the creation of the "Rock Against Racism" concert. He's also an antivaxxer and believes COVID isn't a big deal.
Honestly Eric Clapton's a bit overrated..
David gilmour can kick his ass on guitar any day.
Dave is definitely one of my influences. He lets the notes ring out and sing during solos. Or even Paul Kossoff!
Both Gilmour and Kossoff show that you can be good just playing tasty soulful solos. Not just Slowhand.
The individual cases (9000 per song) are intimidation tactics and trying to set an example. Completely agree that it should be a dollar a song. Maybe 2 bucks a song if there's a hardline about it.
Artists and labels only reinforce why pirating exists with cases like these. It's sad.
Rock Against Racism exists because of people like Eric Clapton. Great musician, awful excuse for a human being.
Worth keeping in mind he had just suffered the death of his infant son and had severe addiction problems at the time. He has since shown significant remorse for how he behaved during that period of his life. Doesn't excuse his behaviour, but I don't think it accurately represents who he is now.
>Rock Against Racism
Lol what an SJW. /s.
Awful musician and awful person.
@@mat2000100 nothing wrong with SJW’s
@@IllusionistBeatsOfficial stop making excuses, having addiction problems and loosing a son is no excuse to be a horrible human being
Meanwhile, The Grateful Dead have a monthly service that offers its fans a bootleg CD from one of their live shows for one flat rate.
Eric Clapton maybe a great guitarist but he's a crap person. Besides, Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Rory Gallagher, Vernon Reid, Jimmy Page, Kevin Shields, Jack White, Dimebag Darrell and may other players are much better guitarists and don't have the baggage Clapton has.
@@Newcastle423 Eric Clapton's best work was with Cream. The only good stuff he did after that was a few songs in the late 80's.
I would definitely argue that copyrights should be limited in length and go back to what they were before Disney made them last practically forever.
Great video as always. Always keep up the great work.
I didn’t know Disney had involvement in extending copyright laws. I guess it’s time to dive down that rabbit hole
Yep every time that fucker mickey gets close to the public domain Disney Disney’s it up and bribes the courts to extend it
I believe the last case was forever minus a day or 100 years after the creator dies
Which is hilarious when you look at Disney and see how much of their empire is built upon others' creations that had no copyright law to protect them.
@@Telsun78 A number of musicians lost out to others (before Disney ever got involved) because they didn't buy a copyright on their song and then someone else does a cover of it and gets all the money because theirs was more popular.
Which is a travesty, in my opinion. Large parts of our culture - people's identities - are owned by corporations, and generations of people inspired by past art can't make art based off of the things that inspired them or they'll get sued into oblivion.
Say what you want about Stephanie Meyers (the Author of twilight) but she never came for E.L. James (the Author of 50 shades of grey) and she basically stole her idea minus the vampires. The books and the movies are very similar.
Do you want a piracy surge? Because this is how you get a piracy surge on your music.
I still loathe Clapton’s cover of I Shot The Sheriff with a burning passion.
Ahhhhh Buckley, tried to sneak in a Scumbags of the Internet without telling us! I know your game 😏
It's incredibly ironic that Eric Clapton sounds so close to Eric Cartman, and what he did is definitly something Cartman would do. The example's funny too, because Cartman would definitly beat someone's ass for a cupcake. lol
I bought an Amon Amarth album digitally from Amazon, and then a week or so later received a whole packet of papers stapled together detailing all these songs I "stole". I called these people saying I didn't steal this album, I have the receipts and they were not having it. I scoured these papers and they were dated on a day I wasn't even home and have definitive proof of not being home. Idk how this happened, but ultimately I had to pay $300 for this album I legally bought.
That’s nutty
The moral of the story: Never, ever buy music, in any form.
Amazon keeps digital receipts. Could have provided those as counter proof instead of paying the $300. But that's hindsight.
The music industry is a mixed bag of fuckery right now and it sucks.
Well… at least it was only $300 and not $300,000.
I still think John Fogerty being sued for sounding too much like John Fogerty is the dumbest.
"to get drugs off the street, you don't go after the users"--Buckley
The War On Drugs and the corporate prison system would like a word with you.
Oh I'm sure they would. They're doing it wrong. Punishing the users in the way they do is ultimately a waste of resources. If you're going to imprison these people, at least force them into a proper rehab? And then punish the scumbags who push drugs in neighborhoods, who make drugs, etc. Treating the symptoms doesn't generally cure the disease. I guess maybe they think "if people knew there was such harsh consequences, they wouldn't do it, and then there'd be no one to sell to so people would just stop making it" but that's not likely. I mean ultimately there's no real solution in that exact situation, addicts will abuse something, whether it's legal or not... it wouldn't be better for these people to just drink legal alcohol instead... but ultimately they've proven they don't want a solution. They WANT this revolving door situation. It makes more money.
@@ADoseofBuckley
Kind of like how they "punished" the billionaire Sackler family for pushing drugs.
Which is a bigger joke?
Drug industry or music industry?
@@ADoseofBuckley Interestingly, this is what happens rather often. Drug addicts get off the illegal drugs just to end up addicted to alcohol. If the underlying issue isn't resolved, they'll never be able to live drug-free.
What's the difference between a bag of cocaine and a kid?
Eric clapton would never let a bag of cocaine fall out of a window.
Ooooh... I laughed but I feel really gross about it now.
Funny yet sad.
Im proud to have laughed at that joke. Fuck him.
I understand you wanted to make a contrast between Clapton’s story and opening about video game roms, but it’s a terrible take to say Nintendo can toss up crappy ROM versions of their game and paying $50 with a paltry library is in anyway fair. The archiving and preservation of video games is in a terrible state as it is already and yes, there are games impossible to play or get ahold of without roms.
My one gripe, good video and really disappointing to hear about one of my favorite guitarists, I’m one of the old bastards that listen to you that has a copy of Unplugged
“Knock on Wood” and “Sunshine of Your Love” are also covers
Most of Eric’s work is either a series of covers or that of songs about George Harrison’s wife (“Layla”, “Wonderful Tonight”, and “She’s Waiting”, for example)
To paraphrase Eric’s thoughts on the blues,
For most people, it stems from pain and oppression, but “for me it was paradise.”
@@Newcastle423 Team Clapton-1 point. The rest are covers, no question
Ironically who’s even buying CDs anymore? So if I have some old CDs in my attic. And I try to sell them I’m likely to be sued if I bought something 20 years ago and it was a bootleg, and I didn’t know, damn I guess I better watch what I sell before someone sues me
Eric is putting more effort into this lawsuit than being a crappy dad in March of 1991.
Brutal. I love it!
Using a dead kid for a burn...that's dark...even for you...
The other day I was gonna buy an Eric Clapton CD from the thrift store because I always heard he was legendary…. Legendary ASSHOLE maybe.
I am glad I didn’t bought it, instead I got a few CD’s from artists I didn’t know about.
I still think Fogerty vs Fantasy records is a dumber lawsuit, where the artist gets sued for writing a song that sounds similar to one he wrote over 20 years before, but wins in court by bringing his guitar. To me this just seems like a pretty standard copyright lawsuit that happened to be made public for once.
This sounds like that episode of the Simpsons involving a copyright lawsuit for the Itchy and Scratchy characters.
I will forever be careful from now on when selling CDs, Eric Clapton or some other boomer copyright trawler might be around the corner to tell me to C Deez Nuts
i guess if i ever decide to sell "my" CDs, ill sell them to actual people and not leave a digital trace online if thats what it takes to sell something "i" own, absolutely ridiculous that you cant even sell things you paid for....like i get if someone is selling something 100s of times , its clear they would be copywriting it..... but when their selling a single cd..... its clear it isnt copywrite, its just them selling what they paid for...
I'm sorry, but that last joke was in extremely poor taste. Cheapened the rest of the video.
your face is in poor taste, you're offending the apes
Oh man I my brother and I used Limewire so much. We had hundreds of songs ripped from Limewire. I can't imagine what that fine might have looked like.
I'll let the government know, thanks
Clapton is so overrated. I'm glad people are turning on him.
No he is not though
imagine actually thinking that
@@ericktellez7632 Yeah, he is overrated. Can't stand his music.
@@Newcastle423 Or so you claim, fanboy. His music still sucks in my opinion.
@@Newcastle423 I've been told an OPINION, fanboy. Get over yourself. Obviously you like his music... I don't.
$hit,i ll never hear "tears in heaven" without thinking the end of this video,that was hillarious! 😁
I can't stand how random everyday people have gotten rich from nothing. It really screws regular people's perception of how siccess actually works in this country.
More like Eric Clapped-In heaven by his disappointed son.
I'm gonna illegally download the entire Clapton discography, burn it to CD, and then throw the CDs in the trash without ever listening to them. Take that Eric!
Didn't wake up today thinking it would be the start of hating Eric Clapton... but here we are.
I don't get why he or his team would even waste their time going after a woman over $10? 🙄 What a prick!
I mean just let her have her 10 dollars like this seems a lot of effort for 10 bucks
Intellectual property rights. She could have gotten her money if she bothered to find out if it's a bootleg first or even regardless sell it to an underground store or in a yard sale rather than publishing that she has it to the world.
I have lost absolutely every bit of respect I had for Eric Clapton after this.
@@audiotyresup Sorry. This is indefensible. Pearl Jam, for example, knew there were way too many bootlegs out there so they started selling live recordings instead of going after people selling the bootlegs. As said in the video, Clapton didn't need to take this woman to court. It was ONE CD.
@@davidleary4524 so, you'd rather the lawsuit than the bootleggers being smart enough to not publicize their illegal activities, or advocating legalization of unofficial copies, or what?
Jerk move Clapton, also isn't 4th best guitarist, like not even in his best years.
Copyright on Twitter is ridiculous. I lost my account I had since 2013 and had built a following and business around because I posted an ACAPELLA song cover, and a video where you can vaguely hear a song playing on a speaker in the next room. Impressive technology that they could even pick that up, but douchey move tbh
Ugh my abusive mother used to sing and play that song called something like "if I could change the world" on repeat -- glad to finally get confirmation all these years later that he's a buttface
Why the hell does Clapton have an Australian accent?...
If you liked the window joke Buckley made, Anthony Jeselnik (one of my favorite comedians,) has one quite similar to it, give him a listen!
Had me laughing pretty hard at the gym
2:32 Extra points for the picture of the well
Clapton is yet another vastly overrated musician. I have never been able to stand listening to him... and that's without taking into consideration all the controversy and stupid remarks he's been connected with over the years.
@@Newcastle423 Or so you claim, fanboy. His music still sucks as far as I'm concerned. And it has that has nothing to do with what he's said or done over the years.
@@Newcastle423 In your OPINION, fanboy.
In the end, Eric Clapton tried to make it right so it doesn't make him look bad. 🎶But we know he just pretending, trying not to be the villain. Pretending.🎶
Anthony Jeselnik said it best “I used to have a little two-year-old son, but he died. The same way Eric Clapton’s son died. For inspiration”
“Wot?! Someone stealin’ me pennies?! Oi swear on me dead kid wot Oi frew out the window Oi’ll get me trillions from ‘er!”
I'm not big on memes, but this felt like a good video to end on that one of the two kids cowering in an angle because of a turtle, with captions saying the kids were murderers and serial killers while the turtle was captioned as "selling bootleg cds"
yeah I know, kinda lame. I don't come to your comment telling you your sense of humour sucks though.
There's not a chance in hell I'd pay a _subscription_ fee for games. Now, buying a cart outright is a different story.
Me: "Oh look, Mr. Clapton, all of my assets are held by a 501(c)(3) non profit that rescues puppies and kittens from shelters that euthanize them. Are you sure you want me to tell people that your lawsuit will result in you being responsible for the deaths of thousands of puppies and kittens?"
I think you'd love Your Favorite Band Sucks, if you have time to listen.
That tingle in our dingle is the virus we got from Limewire.
Ok the 50$ a year one is pathetic. Especially considering their previous library. There are maybe 3 games worth playing. Not even about value but majority of games being pirates aren't on that service.
Geez that got dark. Even for Buckley. Lol
ending pretty out of line i dont really care how bad a person is - that's pretty classless and off limits. That ain't comedy.
Both that lady's husband and his son are watching from heaven wondering wtf he's doing. Bad form
Spicy ending
But seriously, copyright shouldn't be applicable decades later. There are novels more than 100 years old that are not in public domain.
I agree, I think there needs to be a better middle ground. I don't think it should be the "70 years after someone dies" (so they made it in their 30s, they die in their 80s, then 70 more years until it's public domain?) but I also don't think it should be like... the people who are like "once something's 20 years old I should be allowed to have it for free or make money off it".
I saw all the comments about how savage the last joke was and braced myself but damn it still caught me off guard 🤣🤣
holy damn, i thought i made the most charmingly horrible jokes around, but Buckley has it with the last one; not even mentioning he was making money off of a tragedy, while his guitar gently weeped. from heaven. . . . i really do like clapton; ginger baker of all people took him to the desert to get off smack, and he stole george harrison's lady, but he has been exxxxxxxxxxtra weird lately
obv he's not dead, the joke just sounded right that way ;P
Eric Clapton's son died by "accidentally" falling out of a 50 story window.
Hahaha. Would anyone be that shocked?
You're gonna have to pay 21 Jump Street royalties on the "infiltrate the dealer, find the supplier" bit.