Early Morning Drag

The Grammys were on two days ago, and as usual were quite a spectacle. They attracted quite the audience, and presented some impressive performances. The hit among high school kids, at least according to Facebook statuses, was Lil Wayne, Eminem, Drake, and Travis Barker performing Lil Wayne’s new song Drop the World (I could be off on the name). After seeing so many people talk about it I felt that I needed to watch it myself. To watch it I did what any Internet minded person would do, I hopped onto YouTube and searched for a clip of the performance. This approach almost always works, but this time it didn’t. I found the clip I was looking for, it’s just they had all been removed. The Grammys, or maybe better known as the Grannys, had every clip but one, that I could find, deleted. YouTube never used to be like that. It used to be a great online jukebox, but suddenly it all seems to be changing. Now it has videos being take down left and right in fear of lawsuits. Many of the songs I have searched have had the audio on the video changed to avoid lawsuits. It seems a bit ridiculous that this mass change is happening, and also a little sad. Music corporations never seemed to be huge on piracy, but recent years have brought changes to that mentality. Now it seems like they will go after anyone who uses their song with out getting permission. The logic behind this baffles me, as I wonder how taking down one persons video would save them enough money for it to be worth their time. It all needs to stop though, before YouTube becomes overrun by corporations and stops being what it used to be.