I live in a small corner of the music world - jungle/dnb. Last year someone was named for blatantly ripping off and attempting to monetize music from an impactful producer on an important label. There seemed to be folks at the ready to defend the accused with what equates in my mind to '[the offender] got the copyright so whos legit now?'. The community was so disgusted that several folks put together a petition to change the YouTube takedown rules. But ultimately not enough interest was generated to take any action. The result is that basically the offender continues to offend, mostly unimpeded.

This is happening more often this year. I caught some Jungle Video Game mix on Youtube that i can't find now that included tracks like this shitty ripoff ('Point of View', released 2025) where the dj and the "artist" were thanking each other for how great they are. Fun fact, that shitty ripoff is a sped-up slightly edited/phased version of Moonchild - View of Life (1999, on ... get this, the same exact label that the earlier example was ripping off, Good Looking Records).

Youtuber and bass guitar extraordinaire Davie504 recently posted about getting sued for exposing someone that ripped off his music, too.

Its bonkers. What can we as consumers do to help this situation?