When I code, I sometimes like to listen to this
video in the background. If the
video is taken down, you can see a screenshot above. It is basically a playlist
of multiple electronic songs. As far as I can tell, the visualization is
basically a waste of bandwidth and the main goal is to make people click on the
thumbnail.
The video boasts 5 million views! This is basically copyright infringement at
its best. It uses independently made electronic music. These artists are not
part of a giant music label which scrapes YouTube and issues copyright strikes.
These artists most likely don’t care or are not even aware of it.
The author of the video didn’t even mention any of the song in its description.
The only way to know the song is to sieve through the top ~100 comments, and
find this comment:
I don’t even get angry at this anymore. Assholes, supported by big tech, have
been screwing up small content creators and artists for years now. Nobody
really cares, because everybody makes a fortune, except for the small guy
getting killed. But who cares, all of these artists will get replaced by AI,
as long as it is creative, because it hasn’t eaten its tail
yet.
What’s revolting is this: while I was reading the description in order to find
the songs, I saw that the thief was asking, in broken English, for money for
Ukraine.
He doubled down by pinning his comment asking for bitcoins on some random
bitcoin address. Smelling the scam yet?
The SWIFT number seems to be legit. It seems to be the special account opened
by the National Bank of
Ukraine.
But it doesn’t matter, don’t send money to some asshole on the internet. The
European Union has a page listing how you can help Ukrainians, financially or
not.
Use that, and fuck that cyber-beggar.