The DUMBEST Sampling Mistake of the 90s…

This song is on my list to make into karaoke, but now I want to check out Difang! I appreciate your videos!

I love the idea that those curmudgeons did this created this lawsuit as the supposed traditionalist, going after the money and the fame, and within a couple years bye, bye, that's what you get bye bye.Bye bye

You should do a video of how Trent Reznor ended up getting a cowriting credit on Old Town Road.

I'd be more forgiving if this guy didn't have a history of sampling traditional music and not crediting the singers. Once is a mistake, multiple times is on purpose.

Boring. I've watched half the video but still have no clue what the songs you refer to sound like. Clickbait.

I always liked the Difang tune by Crete. Sadness was too overplayed. And I always thought he was riffing off of Deep Forest

The single was actually called Sadeness which was a reference to the Marquis de Sade

I forgot how much I hated this song when it came out. Thanks for the reminder. 👍😃

Yeah, Cretu wasn't big on asking for permissions. Anyway, the guy is a genius who made these incredible pieces of music in the 80s and 90s. Catholics were annoyed by the Gregorian chants used in pop music, but what it actually produced was an avalanche of young people seeking Catholicism. The old Taiwanese people were obscure before Cretu used their voices, and they are obscure after they got their settlement. In the end, it's talented people like Cretu who'll leave their mark on this Earth. He should have asked for permissions, though.

Greed and dishonesty!

Now do Moby’s Play album 😉

Please don't mention Israel

Actually, it is assumed that the one who provided Michael with these "traditional" chants/samples and also those from the Gregorian choir group, was his long time musician friend Adrian Enescu, who was a famous composer for movie soundtracks who died in 2016.

It is assumed that it was him who provided Michael with this material and after the copyright lawsuits happened Michael had to take the blame to protect his friend from a reputation damage. They were both really good friends and they kept the friendship and their collaboration in Enigma under wraps and in secrecy. In 1991, Michael told the magazine BRAVO that the Gregorian chants "were provided by a close musician friend from Romania".

'Cretu has always maintained that he never set out to violate their copyrights.'

The thing is that we look at this with our knowledge and attitude of today, and we think 'well wasn't it obvious?'

In the 1980s and 1990s, people didn't particularly care about copyrights. Record companies started to get worried when DAT (digital audio tape) could make a perfect copy of a CD, without any loss of quality. And they got even more worried when recordable CDs came out. Before that, it hadn't really been a problem. You could make a tape off a record, but the quality would be even worse.

When it came to computer games, piracy was rampant, and it was just a normal thing to do. Companies jumped through hoops to make games difficult to crack, which only had the result that it became very difficult for a genuine owner to play. The cracker teams simply removed the copy protection, and put their own banner in its place.

So when Cretu said this, I believe him. It probably wouldn't have occurred to him that he was violating copyrights, because it simply wasn't on anybody's mind. The availability of affordable samplers in the 1990s meant that practically everything got sampled.

It was only after the copyright owners started cracking down on unlicensed use of their material that it crept into the public consciousness, and initially this campaign was met with a lot of resistance.

All they had to do was ASK.