Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Have you ever wondered why so many people hate record labels, and did you know 3 labels owned pretty much every other one? This is how music became a monopoly!

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A lot of the info from this video comes from this book: Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
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Timestamps:
00:00 How Music Became a Monopoly
01:06 The rise of the big 3
05:13 How is this possible?
11:53 The problem with this

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music, record labels, universal music group, warner music group, sony music entertainment, SME, UMG, WMG, big 3 record labels, big three record labels, the big three, the big 3, how music became a monopoly

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