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lem, because iTunes doesn't have this problem.
Who has manufactured it, and what's their motivation for doing so?
Brian: Well, if you could get the Led Zeppelin
catalog for free because Kelly 129 in Boise
uploads it, and you can slather that with adver-

"I can see a place pretty soon where
we're not going to have mechanical
performances, synchronization and
all these other things. We're gonna
have a license; this is the amount
you're paying me, and that's going to
involve all these relationships-
whether that's straight with the ISP
or that's with YouTube."
-John Rudolph

But here's the thing. If you want to talk about
filtering and excuses and stuff, you've got one
argument is that iTunes and Spotify can do it
and they don't have a problem. There's no
infringing, we're not sending millions of
DMCA notices to Spotify and Apple every day
over rights issues, because we know it's worked
out. The other thing is, for all that video content that is uploaded to YouTube-48 hours a
second, whatever it is-there is no live porn on
YouTube. Zero. Now, if you can figure that
out...

how they can figure that out.
And Brian knows because he's been looking.
[laughter]
John: Cat videos... porn. [laughter]

John: Is someone here going to admit that
that's not true?

Brian: But you know the idea is, there is this
very kind of selective conversation that happens that you just need to be kind of aware of.
Some of the things that you are being fed are
not necessarily the truth, and they are your
rights. They are your rights. Downstream, ultimately, no music equals, no business. Period.
And you [people in the audience] are the front
end of that equation.

Brian: You know, what's the definition of
porn? I'll know it when I see it, right? So some-

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tising and make a lot of money on it, that's
probably a motivation, I would guess, to not
have to pay for it. I mean, I'm just guessing. I
think that if Atlantic could get the Led
Zeppelin catalog from Kelly 129 in Boise and
not have to pay Atlantic Records, they would
probably like to do that too. But it's an issue of
intent. You know, the problem about rights
management is it's a manufactured problem,
because there are legal, legitimate, good citizens in the ecosystem that don't have these
problems. And if one person doesn't have the
problem, nobody should have the problem. And
for as much as we have issues with the compensating and financial issues with Spotify, you
have to give them credit for the fact that they
are a legal and licensed service. Spotify doesn't
have the same problems that YouTube has. So
if these issues can be worked out through the
intent of companies that can actually do it
right and do it legally, why can somebody else
not figure it out? And the last thing I'll say
about this-about filtering everything else-
this is a crowd-source challenge. And you may
not want to do this because of its implications,
I understand that. But, you know, the thing
that we hear... Look, I love YouTube. Nobody
loves YouTube like I do. I love cat videos; I
think it's a great platform. I don't have
anything disparaging to say about Spotify or
YouTube or Google or anybody, but clean it up,
guys! Just clean it up! Just run a clean, honest
business; let's all be friends; let's do it. Just
knock off the nonsense. We love you, we love
cat videos and we know that Kelly 122 in Boise
doesn't have the Led Zeppelin catalog. Knock it
off.

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