MR and MRS DJ You’re Being Cheated out of the Music Your Playing

0:00 Potentially what could happen it might

Mr and Mrs DJ, you're being cheated out of the music you're playing. Now that may sound a bit bizarre because you're playing tracks, you're happy and for the rest of eternity you'll carry on playing those tracks. Well if I give you a brief history and explain potentially what could happen it might absolutely shock you. So this video really again you know Please do your own research and just use common sense, rational and critical thinking. So let's go back when DJs started. Now again a lot of people will say no it started then then and then but let's imagine really the DJ industry you know sort of exploded in the 70s when you had a couple of turntables, a mixer or an all-in-one console really.

And everyone used vinyl, used maybe cassettes as well. But that was it. That's all you had. You didn't have anything else. And again, really this video is targeted for every single DJ out there. So please share, comment, do whatever you want. Thumbs down, thumbs up, don't give a monkeys. But hopefully it will open your mind to the potential of what could happen in the near future. So, 70s, everyone had their own vinyl collection. You couldn't copy it because you had to buy the vinyl. The only way of having someone else's vinyl collection was either steal it off them, which is not a good idea, or just say, can I use your vinyl? And nine times out of ten, the DJ would probably say something really rude along the lines of go and get your own. And then, of course, we had CDs and we still had a...

Physical format. Now this is the key, a physical format. So a lot of people then ditched their vinyl and went on to CD because it was easier, it was smaller, it was user-friendly, you know, the needle wouldn't jump and so on. Of course then we had great CD players, they were actual CD players, they played the CD. And then of course we went on to MP3 because everyone thought well... What's the point in having a vast CD collection carrying that around? We've got rid of the cumbersome heavy vinyl. CDs are easier. You know, an album is like a fraction of the weight of a physical sort of vinyl album. Smaller, easier to sort of move around, open it up, put it in the disc player and away you go. Flick through the tracks instead of, you know, trying to find the beginning of the track using the needle.

2:54 Thought, well, what's the point in having CDs?

MP3, of course. Then people thought, well, what's the point in having CDs? Because now all we need is a hard drive or a thumb drive and now we can have an entire collection in our back pocket and we can copy it off the next door neighbour and we can download music, we can stream it, we can also put stream as the key here. And now, of course, a lot of people are thinking, well, there's no need to even have a hard drive, you can stream. Now the main reason I'm doing this video is because of the latest player from Alpha Theta, the CDJ-3000X. Now again, CDJ, a CD, it doesn't even play CDs. You just plug your thumb drive in and away you go. Alternatively what you can do is you can just stream from your music providers. And now you can just turn up...

You don't even have to take any music, any physical music because it's there for you. And if you pay the right amount, guess what? You have got practically every single track underneath the sun without having to take any physical format. The joys of that. Amazing, isn't it? You don't even have to carry any. All you do is just carry a couple of CD players or media players and away you go. But what's happening is you're being cheated into believing this is the future, this is the way forward. Now if I tell you something that's quite dystopian and very scary it may make you start to think and go back to physical because the way things are moving with the digital stroke blockchain era, it's very scary.

Very scary indeed. Let me give you two scenarios. Number one is that a lot of people who watch this video will think, do you know what, Jonathan, he may be a bit of a wacky guy but he's got a good idea. I'm going to buy vinyl, buy CDs and buy a couple of CDJ-1000M3s and play music indefinitely. Of course until the CD players go wrong but then you fix them. They're quite cheap at the moment so I'm not recommending you get them but I'm just saying have a think about it. The other one is that you think, well, Jonathan's talking a load of rubbish. I'm going to go with the times, with the future, and I'm just going to stream. So let's imagine 20 years from now, and this is what's happening. If you go into secondhand shops, you'll see loads of CDs, dirt cheap, you know, like five for a pound and so on. People can't even get rid of them because they want the latest thing.

5:39 I'm not saying it will happen, but I'm saying there is a possibility

I predict, and again please put in a comment if you think I'm right, wrong, talking a load of rubbish, is in the near future, in the near future, what will happen is when we get to this completely blockchain era where you've got a central bank currency and so on, is that in the future, if you do something wrong, they will stop you playing the music that you're playing. Yes, that's right. Now I'm not saying it will happen, but I'm saying there is a possibility. So your card that they want to bring out in the UK will be logged into everything about you. It will be your digital you-know-what and if the system gets their way with it, you'll have to have that at all times when you buy things, when you sell things, when you go shopping, when you're in your car and so on. But also...

If, let's say, for example, you haven't paid a bill, it will automatically be taken from you. If you get a speeding fine, it will automatically be taken from you. If you jaywalk, then of course your credit score possibly could go down. But also, my sort of prediction is in the near future, if you do naughty things against the system, then they could say, well, I'm sorry, you can't have your music. And you'll go like, well, I can because I've got, I've paid my fee. But then if you're a naughty boy or naughty girl, theoretically, they will be able to take it away from you because they're slowly enticing you into the future of just stream. It's all there. You don't need any physical. Just chuck it in a skip, all your vinyl and your CDs, because they're cumbersome. They're a waste of time. They take up space. And all you need is the web.

Just be wary because I honestly think one of the things that will happen in the future is you will be judged by how you act and if you act inappropriately then they could take things away from you. So if you are a DJ and you rely solely on streaming then please beware. What do you think? Do you think I'm talking a load of rubbish or do you think there is... There's something behind what I'm saying, alright? I'd love to hear your comments on it. But in a nutshell, do yourself a favour if you've got a bunch of CDs or vinyl, don't get rid of them. Please don't get rid of them because in the near to distant future you may be patting yourself on your back thinking, thank God I didn't get rid of the hard copies. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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