Part 2 Keep Hard Copies of DJ Music You Own Dont Fall for the Convenience of the Cloud

0:00 Sorry, I've just been time-travelling

Calm down! Sorry, I've just been time-travelling. Oh my goodness, this is my second video in reasons why you should definitely keep hard copies of your music. I've been to the future, ladies and gentlemen, and it's horrific, it's horrendous. Listen to me, please, you've got to listen to me, because if you don't, you're going to lose all your music. I went to the year 2050, I chatted to someone and they told me what it's like in the future. It's horrendous. Listen, basically what they told me is that in the past people decided to get rid of their hard copies of music. They didn't need vinyl, they didn't need CDs, they didn't need MP3s, they didn't even need computers because everything was online, everything was out there, centralised in one place.

What they told me is that it went from, you know... being in the cloud and being in different pools of music, around the web where you could just stream whenever you wanted. It slowly got centralised and it was governed by the government. They were in control of your music. Also they were in control of you. What he told me is really scary. He said that people now who are not allowed to listen to music, you know who they are. Because if you're in a room with a whole bunch of friends and you're all listening to some tracks and all of a sudden another person walks in and the music stops, that's because they're not allowed to listen to music. He said it's crazy no matter where you go you can walk into a big nightclub and all of a sudden someone will walk in

1:38 I mean how come?

The music stops everyone looks at them and they're asked to leave. So how did this happen? I said how? I mean how come? Why were people like this? Why didn't people keep their music? And he said it's because they made it like a cherry, they made it like the ice cream, they made it so sweet for them. I said well what do you mean? He said well listen, what the system tried to get people to realise is that you didn't need your own hard copies anymore. Why bother carrying records? Why bother having an mp3 player? Why bother having CDs when you can download, you can stream, you can listen to any music anytime, anyplace, anywhere and people bought it. They loved the idea. They loved the fact they could pay a certain amount of money and they could listen to

Anything wherever they were. It didn't matter, all they had to do was have some form of web access but the sad thing is he said that now there are some people who can't even have web access because they've done something wrong so they're completely blocked away from the entire system because this is how we live now. He said we live completely online, computers. I said what about computers? He said what do you mean a computer? We don't have anything now, we just put glasses on and everything's on a screen. We can chat, we can email, we can message and you know what if we do something wrong that's gone. I said well how about when you go to a pub and you want to buy a drink and whatnot? He said yeah that's fine if you're allowed to but in a lot

3:27 System

Of places, a lot of cases as well, you can't even drink. Why not? I said well because they've got your doctor's reports online so if you go to a bar and you want a double whiskey you can't because you're not allowed to drink alcohol. I said well that's crazy. Can't you go to a local store or buy some? He says no because everything's connected. Wow I said well how do you survive? He said well you've just got to do as you're told now, you don't have a choice. You have to do as you're told otherwise you can't listen to music and he said I just wish, I wish I'd have kept all of my hard copies because at least I could have gone home, I could have turned on an old-school CD player or used a vinyl turntable and listened to my tracks.

But everyone slowly got rid of all of that because they didn't need it. They felt the system would look after them, the system would let them play music to their heart's content, the system made it so easy to listen from the cloud and they made it as though you felt it was awkward to have your own music. It's crazy I don't want to go to the future. I want to stick in the past and make my hard copies. Practice and enjoy.

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