Hello everyone, this is Moka and today we're gonna talk about music stealing. Few weeks ago someone is stolen in Fraction's track and uploaded it under someone else name. And three days ago someone has stolen my one of the most popular tracks with hundreds of thousands of use and thousands of usages on YouTube. How is it possible that someone can steal the track and the most important the monetization of its creator? Any track from any artist can be stolen. I recommend you to watch a video with a crazy story that happened to the artist the fat rat a few years ago. But this time we discovered something strange. Someone who steal music and humanization on a crazy scale. If you're not a musician you might think that it doesn't concern you, but don't ignore this video. The scammers don't want our music, they want your monetization. It all have started a month ago when even in Fraction received messages from several subscribers that someone was stealing the monetization from their videos in which they used his track Camera. He checked and noticed that the track had been stolen. He also received a claim on his YouTube channel from a company called Cash Gold Records. They claimed that Camera belonged to them. They also took the monetization from video on the Fraction's channel and from subscribers who used his track. After checking the information from the copyright claim we noticed that their partner is Merlin. This is a huge music company. YouTube doesn't moderate such disputes, so the artist can only contact the company that released the stolen track. If you don't receive response from them, this is your problem. Even wrote an email to Cash Gold Records asking them to remove his track from the YouTube content ID and to return the monetization to everyone. There was no response. Then we wrote an email to Merlin. They replied that they forwarded this message to Cash Gold Records. After that Cash Gold Records stopped ignoring us and returned the monetization to the subscribers and even. It seems like we've solved this problem, but a new surprise was waiting for us a few days later. One of my most popular tracks, Get Drunk, was stolen. I received a message from subscriber just like even that a certain Premiere Pro took their monetization with the help of Merlin again. The subscriber used my track Get Drunk in his video. My original track was sped up and uploaded to the content ID system. By the way, the track of our friend Alexi Action was stolen month ago using Premiere Pro as well. Who is Merlin? They called themselves the largest and the most trusted international digital music license partner for independence. They helped independent artists and labels upload music on marketplaces, Spotify, iTunes and YouTube content ID. But why can this labels easily steal our music and monetization of our subscribers? Let's get back to the Cash Gold Records. Their linked in-page says that they are a label from LA. On YouTube, we found a short video that says Cash Gold Records are taking monetization from bloggers. Link in the description. In the comments on this exposed video, we saw many messages with the question, how can I join Cash Gold Records? We found this strange and began to start the comments on other videos related to this label. Everywhere we stumbled upon the same question, how can I join Cash Gold? Usually, in response to this comment, someone leaves their number on what's up to help you join. We decided to contact them. We were told that for $50, we can get access to a personal account for music uploads. When asked if we can upload other people's tracks, we were told yes, but the tracks should not be too popular so that the music owner does not notice the theft. We decided to filter the latest releases of Cash Gold Records for the month and start shazaming them. We found a large amount of music that was shazammed as other artists tracks and was uploaded to Spotify many years ago. Almost every release was shazammed. Some of the tracks were sped up, pitched slightly altered and some tracks were uploaded without changes. We also uploaded some of the tracks to our test YouTube channel. We received a copyright claim for each of the tracks. Almyntization was taken by Cash Gold Records. So it means that if YouTube blogger legally uses music and receives monetization from YouTube, Cash Gold Records claim their copyright in the YouTube content ID and take the blogger's monetization. It appears that for $50, you can buy access to the Cash Gold Records personal account and easily upload other people's tracks to the YouTube content ID system. By the way, recently in the USA, people were arrested for stolen about $20 million using a similar scheme. They illegally claimed copyright on other people's music. Our musician friends constantly received false claims on videos with their own music. Alexi Action received several false claims every week. Someone stole a track with 47 million plays from a fat rat as well as monetization and these are just few examples. We have enough subscribers and connections to help us band scammers and return our monetization. Over the years we have started copyright law and know how to protect ourselves, but what about small musicians? If they are really entire labels still in thousands of tracks, then this is madness. If you like the idea of claiming copyright on someone else's music and making money from it while watching this video, well, don't do it. This is a huge violation of the law. You will even go to jail or receive a huge penalty sooner or later. Let's not be silent about this. If you are a musician, tell us your stories about your stolen music in comments here or tell stories in your Instagram posts or make videos like we do on YouTube. If you are a blogger, spread this video information and we would like to hear a response from Merlin, who are the cash gold records and Premiere Pro? Why can labels work with Merlin easily still monetization from our music and our subscribers? How long has cash gold records been monetizing others artist music? We always fight for your monetization and that's the goal for our channels. Thank you all.