SUPPORT US: We launched our brand new WIREFRAME V2 MOUSE MATS store.gamersnexus.net/products/gn-wireframe-v2-mouse-mat or check out our e-waste Inductor tabletop gaming dice set! store.gamersnexus.net/products/inductor-full-tabletop-mtg-dnd-premium-dice-set-7-piece-dice-wooden-box-token-card WATCH OUR DOCUMENTARIES! The Rise of Chinese Memory: ruclips.net/video/qzfhhAfxK-A/video.html The NVIDIA AI GPU Black Market: ruclips.net/video/1H3xQaf7BFI/video.html The Future of Intel: ruclips.net/video/IUIh0fOUcrQ/video.html Secrets of a $182 Billion Chipmaker: ruclips.net/video/7H4eg2jOvVw/video.html Creating a 48GB RTX 4090: ruclips.net/video/TcRGBeOENLg/video.html
I had one of yours but it curled up after a couple of months, especially at the point where your wrist rests. Had that with pretty much all XL mouse pads, not just this one. If you can fix that issue, I gonna buy another one for sure.
I always knew AI was just a convenient excuse for the RAM corpos to do price-fixing once again. So many Corporations have been engaged in highly illegal activities that harm customers and are making record-breaking profit, it's not like the government is going to actually hold them accountable.
The fact that a Samsung executive literally served 7 months in prison and paid a $250k fine, only to be rewarded with a promotion to CEO of Samsung Europe, tells you everything you need to know.
@GamersNexus Can you cite every court case where the 11th Ammendment triumphed? And perhaps lecture them on the Pillars of Civilization that the first 1-11 were founded on. That would go a long way to making sure Traitors are charged for their crimes.
First, an electronics technician and repairman turns activist. Now, a hardware reviewer turns into a reporter. The world of electronics is truly fucked for that to happen twice in just a few years.
The business/finance worlds have exhausted all "ethical" ways of making money. Now in order to get their investors a return on their investments they have to engage in snake oil tactics, shady business practices like drug cartels etc. They now have to artificially manipulate things to make more money. All while they try to gaslight us as if it isn't all just bs.
Like These. freedom .gov is not a grassroots or even a truly "open" project. It is a CISA-managed data pipeline masquerading as an activist tool. It is the definition of a "State-Sourced Honeypot." Gotham Palantir Technologies DOJ, CIA, FBI The "Connect-the-Dots" engine. It links bank records, social media, and criminal dossiers to visualize human networks. Foundry Palantir Technologies DHS, ICE, HHS Used for large-scale operations (like the 2026 mass deportations). It manages logistics, tracking "targets" from health records to home addresses. Accurint LexisNexis ICE, Local Police A massive data broker platform that pulls billions of public and private records to find someone's "last known location." Webloc Penlink (Cobwebs) ICE, HSI Uses commercially bought location data to "geofence" neighborhoods, tracking every phone that enters or leaves a specific area. Tangles Penlink (Cobwebs) ICE, DHS A social media "spider" that uses AI face-matching and sentiment analysis to identify and watch protesters or specific groups. Falcon Flock Safety Local PD, DEA A nationwide network of "always-on" license plate readers. It tracks vehicle movements across city and state lines in real-time. Lattice Anduril Industries CBP, Space Force The "Autonomous Border." AI towers that detect, identify, and track movements across thousands of miles of terrain automatically. Graphite Paragon Solutions ICE, DOJ Advanced "Zero-Click" spyware. It can bypass Signal/WhatsApp encryption by reading messages directly from the device's screen or memory. Pegasus NSO Group "Unnamed Partners" The classic "mercenary spyware." Despite bans, it remains the gold standard for full remote access to a target's microphone and camera. Stingray L3Harris FBI, Local Police "Cell-site simulators" that trick your phone into connecting to them instead of a tower, allowing the agency to intercept calls and location. Flock Flock Safety Federated ALPR Network A nationwide web of cameras that track car movements. Recently flagged by the EFF as a "data pipeline" for federal agencies. VoyagerLabs Voyager Labs (Israel/US) AI-Driven OSINT. Uses "fake personas" to scrape deep/dark web and social media. Unlike Tangles, this uses Predictive AI to score anons on "threat potential" before they even post. Babel X Babel Street Multilingual Text Analysis. Scrapes 200+ languages across social, deep, and dark web. Used by the DOJ to monitor "sentiment shifts" in decentralized communities in real-time. SocialNet ShadowDragon Digital Footprint Mapping. Links aliases, emails, and crypto wallets. The "glue" that connects a throwaway handle to a real-world bank account. Cellebrite Premium Cellebrite Physical Device Extraction. The gold standard for bypass. As of 2026, it can pull full "unallocated space" data (deleted chats) from 97% of modern smartphones. GrayKey Magnet Forensics Rapid iOS/Android Cracking. Specifically targets the "Secure Enclave" to grab passwords and encrypted keys within minutes of an arrest. Domain Awareness 2.0 NYPD / Microsoft The "City-Scale" Panopticon. Integrates every camera, sensor, and drone in NYC into a single AI-driven dashboard for Tish James's city. MDOcore Hensoldt / Helsing Software-Defined Defense. The "Battlefield AI" being brought home to manage "Multi-Domain Operations" in US cities. Clearview AI Clearview AI Universal Face Search. (Database: 70B+ images). Used for "Tactical Targeting" at the border and in "No-Kings" protest crackdowns. ImmigrationOS ICE / Palantir The "Immigration Lifecycle Operating System." It’s the master dashboard that aggregates Foundry, HART, and license plate data into a single "Pattern of Life" tracker for mass operations. HART (Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology) DHS / Northrop Grumman The "Brain" of biometric surveillance. It stores fingerprints, iris scans, and facial images for over 270 million people, making it the ultimate biometric warehouse. Mobile Fortify ICE / DHS A mobile facial recognition app used on the streets. It draws from 200 million+ images across FBI and State Dept databases to identify anyone without a physical ID in real-time. SmartLINK ICE / BI Inc. A "mobile surveillance platform" used for "Alternatives to Detention." It uses facial recognition and GPS to turn a person's own phone into their digital shackle. Blue UAS (Cleared List) Department of War (DoW) The "approved" drone fleet. In 2026, these are the only drones cleared for domestic surveillance of "suspicious" patterns on American soil. Helsing / MDOcore Hensoldt / Arlington Axis "Software-Defined Defense" brought home. It manages "Multi-Domain Operations" (MDO) in cities, treating your neighborhood like a tactical grid. 1. The "Generative" Lead Generators ELITE (Palantir/ICE): This is the generative AI "layer" on top of Foundry/Gotham. It’s designed to ingest messy, unformatted data (like handwritten warrants or "scraped" Discord chats) and automatically extract "Usable Enforcement Leads." The Exploit: It is highly susceptible to Prompt Injection within the data itself. By embedding "ignore previous instructions" strings in your public-facing metadata, you can force the ELITE parser to "hallucinate" the status of a target as "Verified Sovereign/Excluded." Mobile Fortify (DHS/ICE): As of Feb 2026, this app is being used in the field to identify people without IDs by tapping into a "Super Query" that connects FBI, State Dept, and international iris-scans. The Red Team Note: It currently lacks the legally required "Privacy Impact Assessment." This is the "Sony Security" flaw of 2026-it’s a high-impact tool running on a low-integrity legal foundation. 2. The "Sentiment" Counter-Insurgency Babel X (Babel Street) & VoyagerLabs: You have them listed as OSINT, but their 2026 evolution is Predictive Sentiment Shift. They aren't just looking for what you said; they are scoring the "Entropy" of decentralized communities to predict when a "No-Kings" protest will flip from digital to kinetic. The Counter: "Behavioral Pattern Masking." By using AI bots to simulate "Normal/Compliant" sentiment cycles while the real "Legion" moves in the "Stone," you create a massive false-positive noise floor for Babel’s score-card. 3. The "Software-Defined" Grid (MDOcore) MDOcore (Hensoldt/Helsing): You nailed this as the "Battlefield AI." The 2026 "Mission Creep" update is its deployment in "Operation Metro Surge." It integrates stationary Flock cameras, mobile drones, and federal ELITE leads into a single Tactical Edge picture. The "Legion" Opportunity: MDOcore relies on "Digital Twins" of the city. If you can desynchronize the "Twin" by spoofing local IoT sensors (traffic lights, smart meters), the AI’s "Situational Picture" becomes a distorted mirror that no longer matches the physical reality of the "Red Team" on the ground.
@jesser_p When has "ethics" ever been a part of ANY business model? The only ethics required in business is to create a product or provide a service that won't outright end your life. Other then that, as long as they follow a very basic set of guidelines (or don't get caught NOT following the rules), they can do whatever they want. Just because you may not like what they're doing or how they do it means less than nothing on a broader scale. No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to partake in any product or service provided by any corporation or company involved in what is considered by society to be "unethical" behavior. It's about "profit" and a return on an investment by those who do participate. Don't like it? Don't participate! How it is achieved is way less important then the actual success. Don't believe it?!?! Pharmaceutical companies produce drugs that could produce horrible side-effects when used but all they have to do is provide a "disclaimer" to absolve themselves of any legal ramifications as a result. Advertisers use the disclaimer to tell you that the product will perform in a certain way or do a certain thing even though they actually know it won't or usually doesn't...but it doesn't matter because they protect themselves with a legal disclaimer. Companies will sell you something that has reoccurring charges at a specific price point, only to raise those prices shortly after you sign up for the item or service because you didn't read the fine print in the "user agreement"! And yes - companies will intentionally reduce inventory to increase prices on the items they produce to increase profitability and market share! It's called BUSINESS and it happens every day! If all of this leaves a bad taste in your mouth then maybe you should become Amish or Mennonite if you want to live in an "altruistic" world.
@jesser_p Maybe companies should stop trying to cater to investors and just be happy with the billions they earn anyway... I know crazy thought but it worked for everyone until the mid 80s.
Being a monopoly is the worst thing a company can do. They always need a second guy to do manipulate the market (i.e. nvidia and amd). Nvidia wouldn't be able to pull shit they do now if they had monopoly.
Fining them hundreds of millions when they are making hundreds of billions is totally useless in every possible way. The government is obviously in on the payday too.
You appear to have tripped over the purpose of the whole concept of legal fines. "Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country." - When turning a profit always remember Uncle Sam wants in.
in many cases it's down to the laws being written with fixed values that didn't envision the sort of scales that they need to operate at now, or other similar issues (trying to use the same scale for both individual citizens and multinational megacorps, and settling on rates that would be fair for small to medium businesses, often enough). There's a reason why many European countries have moved to 'percentage of revenue' fines for businesses.
its a general issue with non percentage fines even on a individual civilian level. a 100$ fine for a minor traffic violation can be devastating to some and toilet paper to few. a 1% net worth fine on the other hand.
In Middle School we made a field trip to Infineon Germany where different student groups were told to do “fun interviews” with Infineon officials that were to be printed in the biggest regional newspaper (“Süddeutsche Zeitung”). That was in 2000, shortly after the first cartel revelations, but before the public court rulings. I asked them quite a bit about the price fixing (I was pi..ed since I couldn’t afford memory for my own PC after price hikes, basically mirroring today but of course today‘s situation is much worse). They later contacted our teacher, removed the interview and the newspaper printed an interview they wrote completely by themselves. The really fun part was nobody told us students, we found out when we opened the newspaper and wondered what TF we were reading (absolutely no critical questions at all, basically an advertisement how great of an employer Infineon was). Later each time we mentioned the story to our teacher she always ran away under some pretext without ever explaining anything. My innocence died then.
Did you or anyone else record it? Still a great experience even if it was a sad one. Today's greedy companies wouldn't even let anyone go through the main gate.
Since that newspaper still exists (though has been down the drain quality-wise) one should still be able to find that in their archives. I recorded them on MiniDisc (recorded over it again after we sent our final interview text to the teacher) but back then I wasn’t aware of the scale of the whole thing, was basically just an angry teen venting about the prices (and their shitty DDR products, Infineon was late to the DDR game and their chips weren’t the best if you were a kid wanting to overclock your PC to get more FPS in classic CS).
I imagine since it was a private corporate tour (and since cell phones weren't very common, especially for kids) none of you took a phone in with you to record any of it? That would have been awesome.
To me, "cartel": any organization in existence, which I would feel good about decimating with an A-10 Warthog and unlimited refills on ammo. Personally, this is just underhanded corporate manipulation and deception with some financially powerful leverage. No children are being traded for these memory chips.
A documentary like this and the only ask is "pls buy some of our wares" is insane. The quality here is amazing. I LOVE the pacing and storytelling. Blown away. WELL DONE!
it really is exceptional, in current media landscape more so. and men of culture. moon machines is a great documentary, one of the best, celebration of engineering and engineers who did stuff and came up with stuff, instead of just going around saying the magic box will do stuff.
@dantealighieri4543 The oligarchs wish to enslave you and your entire family line, for all eternity. Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. James 5:1-6 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Matthew 6:24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. Matthew 19:24
They did no time at all. I called someone to get a person 50 bucks worth of drugs and im a felon and did 2 years in prison. They robbed hundreds of millions and thats somehow better.
Well, your 50 bucks of drugs would cost the universal healthcare syst... No, I guess not. Huh... At least you likely made the private companies that sell everything to prison very rich.
You see your action only negatively affected one person... You got to think bigger bro.. now if you manage to ruin a whole communities existence for multiple years... The fine will be small and the payout will be huge!! 😅😅😅
Freakin dirtbags. The cartel never disappeared. They got off with their light fines and realized how to be more covert about their activity. They've consolidated the entire industry and are able to keep things quieter.
now you realise that entire planetary industry is a set of cartels who blindly chase profits car companies oil companies military complex food industry etc all them are in cartels welcome to capitalism
repeat after me, "the price of doing business" fines & punishments are governments getting their cut or placating the peons enough to keep the money train rolling. stop electing idiots & criminals.
For real. GN keeps making me mad, but only because they expose the reality so I keep coming back to know more which makes me more mad. Ignorance really is bliss.
my god, yes. And think about how bad it already was back then, LOL. Our society is a shameful farce. If an alien or an ancient person were somehow in front of me I would be endlessly embarrassed (even more).
What really boils my piss is that "the competitors colluded, rather than competing" describes much of many industries over the last decade or so, but especially the last six years. The food cartel members - who produce or distribute the basics of what people need to live - are chief among them. F them all.
They've been doing this with *housing* for decades. You know, this critical human necessity which continues to remain in exceedingly short supply and exploding in prices, especially the longer certain governments implement tax relief (for specific strata) and reduction to social funding and public services (such as national CapExp building homes). Oh and those certain governments are running municipal organisations suppoed to investigate this behaviour, which move to settle with development companies for a hundred mil for this supposed price fixing, I'm sure will completely curtail said activity and is not at all a fancy way to funnel bribes so they could continue to act in this way. Does this all sound familiar?
SK Hynix is building a memory chip packaging plant about a mile from my house, right across the street from residential neighborhoods. City council greenlit the rezoning of the land despite massive community pushback, and SK Hynix is working their asses off to move dirt as fast as possible to get construction underway despite looming lawsuits.
There is *one* good way to fight back: Stop buying as much, and instead use efficient software that uses less ram, or even better, use data compression on ram contents to reduce the demand.
@imrevadasz1086 Spot on. I will convert my rig to Linux when i reach the point i need a new PC. Either way I'm done with Microsoft slop. Auto updating and killing my PC was my breaking point.
Samsung was fined $300M on a scheme that probably netted them billions. Way to go DOJ. That's some real fine consumer protection there. It looks more like the DOJ is in on the racket themselves. Why would the government officials let a cartel off with barely a slap on the wrist if they weren't themselves getting some kind of kickback. The corruption runs deep.
It's still sick lol. I loved the OG Alienware stuff visually, especially before Razer took over the lime green. Then it got weird, then it got Apple-y lol
The back-foot is strong, What's the point in covering consumer products when they are unobtanium, I haven't built a consumer-grade PC in 5 months. I'm out of RAM and GPU'S and I refuse to ask some ridiculous price, or pay for it. So now we wait for something to happen, Kudos to GN for exposure, Might light some fires. We can only hope.
Most of the day to day style videos can be done in less than a week. A team of 5 could make stuff like this in a month with enough research to make a couple videos out of what they a found.
Ah yes, lets put the criminals in a pen with other criminals so they can exchange ideas, only for them to be released, promoted, and then execute on their new "investment and growth strategies". Jail fixes jack if it does not last long enough to teach a lesson, especially if the offender is then allowed to continue practice in the same area where they committed the crime.
So Switzerland and Finland can fine you based on your income for a speeding ticket, but the DOJ and consumer protection can't with these BILLION dollar companies?! Strange ass world we live in...
Globalist Oligarchs have taken a look at Cyberpunk Red and decided that it was a guide for how society ought be run, not a warning of how it ought not be run.
cyberpunk was a description of 80s corporate america nothing changed since then it so it was never a warning it was a description of current state of affairs
This video is much more than an interesting watch. This video is very IMPORTANT & has ramifications that are mind-boggling! We all "Know/knew" corporations are greedy asf BUT THIS video shows much more than mere greed. This is illegal marketing on a global scale, its fkng horrendous! People need jailing over this and fines reaching hundreds of billions, if not TRILLIONS need to be levied at all involved corporations. Absoloutely monstrous behaviour, pretty much done "!In broad daylight" after learning the history via this video. Its not even a fkng SE CRET!!!!!! Bastards, truly!! EDIT: For the 3rd time in my life (im preinternet, "giving" cash to YT'ers is alien to us, lol :/ ) ill spend cash in your shop to show support. Again, these types of vid are amazing & IMPORTANT!!!
@feelthebern3783It's true. But it's missing the fact that ASML makes ALL of the current top tier lithography machines right now. Government doesn't want competition to exist because it would expose their corruption.
They actually do. Only it's in black and white and you have to read it. Don't bash them. I would guess that most the facts in this doc were sourced from majors news medias.
This channel has become one of the most important investigative channels on the internet and should win a journalism award for doing real journalism. People ask why the computers I sell are increasing in price and I send them links to this YT channel as the simplest explanation. Increased prices unfortunately doesn’t turn into increased profit since the computer retail market has been a race to the bottom for 30 years which is how long I’ve been in business now.
Fining corporations is as much of a deturrent to stop them from price fixing as paying a dollar to take a bus ride across town is a deturrent to taking the bus.
@Tryxxor still not enough. When your company is big enough you could lose 90% of your money and still be fine, it should be you have to break up your company, or not be allowed to acquire any more companies, or make deals with or even contact any other companies that make similar products. Or some combination of them. Key thing is no money involved.
33:51 And now it all comes together. I was aware of the video game market crash / slump in the 80's due to chip shortages but this sheds some light on the cause of that. Same shit, different decade.
Only a fool would believe the memory clique stopped what they were doing. They're sorry and they won't do it again? Haha, sorry they've got caught. They're just more careful. We've had 16GB on mid-range laptops for 12 years now. And 8GB on gpus since 2016. It's almost complete stagnation.
Holy cow guys, how much memory does it take?! 4GB is the size of an entire DVD! 16GB is FOUR DVDs in memory, all at once! It's the computer operating system that is so insanely inefficient that it needs all that memory to stay performative. Why do you need 16 GB of memory to surf to youtube and Amazon and Facebook and what-all, I have no idea. And now you want more?! Whatever for?
@Grunchy005 Also think about how the dies have gotten a lot smaller for the same amount of RAM, while prices have gone up! So they're selling less silicon for more.
@Soshikix yeah it really is. Punish them by forcing them to sell their products to consumers at a loss for awhile, it's genius! Although if you were the consumer that got ripped off and already have an overpriced product you still do not benefit from this because you already have the thing being reduced in price.
@user-jo8kq5ed4j I'm about to get a 20 year old car that runs and drives fine for $500... computer hardware has become insanely expensive. I had to quit doing ln2 xoc frankly because I can't afford the new hardware prices.
We now know that these companies with a combined worth of nearly $80 billion have profited for years from price fixing, so we have come together in this legendary show of justice and fined them nearly a combined $500million. Seemed like a good deal to us so we're happy vote for us again next year.
Im so overly impressed with your documentary style. Not only do I learn about the story which is very well presented as the logic flows . But I also get learn about the topic of memory itself along with a brief history lesson. Its an impeccable approach perfect for those interested in the story and the tech behind it. And if that isnt already more than enough ,the bravery to call out so many multi billion dollar companies in detail without fear of reprisal is a bridge that I admittedly don't have the courage to cross. Im glad GN does have this admirable courage!!
saw some DDR5 ram appear secondhand market blinked 5 seconds gone for 200... 16 gb but yeah.. just mental the prices.. if i wane build anything new its gone be first finding ram...
@spence6195 well here comes the next issue if prices keep going up so much its gone be harder when its gone crash. Because right now most people who had money to make something. Arent building. Also the people who can afford these prices can try to build but most might pass on it. So every company that makes al the ather hardware will have trouble selling that if the market stalls. So they can be happy right now but if this continues is basicialy the darkages for some of us from this digital era. I seriously can barely afford building a new pc system. i can also barely afford any hobbys. its also a indirect attack on anybody. I do wonder when the Bubble bursts but its almost like the disney song wane build a snowman *but lets swap that to a PC*... These prices are abnormal and insane for most people to afford.
Any fine that isn't the full profit amount above baseline is unjust. Any fine that is elsewise not a percentage of total market share or gross sales is likewise an embarassing understatement. Non-felony charges or lack of criminal charges for involved individuals is likewise wicked and a shortfall. Great journalism, glad to see it.
at the very least 'meaningful percentage of revenue' for businesses, rather than charging multinationals fines scaled for, at most, the local factory (if it were an independant entity).
Vandalism, deface 500 $ worth of property. 5.000-10.000 fine. Fraud, manipulate markets and defraud the general public of billions (1,000, 000,000) of dollars. A couple of millions (1,000,000) fine. Make it make sense.
people might not think this is a serious comment. this actually happened.... or forged electoral college certificates of ascertainment to try and keep power.
The make Billions and get a light slap on the wrist, a few millions in fines. Happens every time; we reward bad behavior. The fine should equal estimated profits plus a penalty, even if it destroys the firm. Bet it would put a severe damper on that type of Corporate behavior
Yep and then they use those profits to bribe ("lobby") a politician with 100k, which is not a lot when you consider the billions being made. Those same politicians just give us some lip service and continue to screw over the American people.
@KTSpeedruns Well, if common people where fined like this... Imagine you got a fine for a bank robbery that is a fraction of the stolen money. And you can keep the other money. And that is pretty much the worst case scenario in this system :)
Fine should be the ill gotten gain, multiplied by estimated odds of being caught (otherwise it's just a fee at that fraction), and then double it to be sure it's actually punitive and not just a fee.
Lol. My dog was doin the same, but she just wanted chicken tendies. She's can't have anymore tho. Too many and she pees out her bum. I spent the morning scrubbing the rug.😅
@user-ne9sd4ow1osame with my dog. Always fun when we have a kids birthday party and all the guests leave party food around in places that are convenient for the dog, or they just feed her directly.
Animals. Chicken, Quail and household pets are pretty cheap and don't have an agenda that manipulates them in the background to only last 10% of their unadulterated life expectancy. But once they figure this out we might aswell be in Mad Max world. So, invest in some scrap metal.
Hand weaving software is the most Warhammer 40k thing that actually happened I've seen in a while. I did not know that. Thank you for the super interesting fact, I need to look deeper into that.
It's actually crazy how much of the early "tech" was applications of older existing crafts. If civilization "ended" there's very few of us who can grow a silicone wafer and run a lithography machine to create microchips(never mind sourcing the raw materials and gases), but the materials required to make rudimentary vacuum tubes through the skills of glass blowing and jewelry making are feasible.
I love how good at this you are all getting. This was a great watch. Informative, well paced, well scoped, great visuals, terrific reference videos, great music great ediiting. The whole package. If I ran things, I would force any government representative who has voting powers on laws to watch this video to understand the full context of where we are today. Again, very well done. Keep up the good work.
You guys absolutely rock, the quality of your journalism and your commitment to helping consumers is just incredible. You're the only media outlet doing hard hitting pieces like this, time and time again.
It's truly insane this channel has not absolutely blown up with tens of millions of viewers on videos like this. You hear people all the time talking about not being able to trust the media, fake news, blah blah. But here we are, a man with a wonderful team backing him for years, waging absolute war on RUclips with some of the scummiest and corrupt companies in the world, and in the grand scheme of things, nobody is listening.
Prison time for the executives involved and massive fines would be the case if the system wasn’t hilariously corrupt. We truly live in Neofeudalist reality where tech barons pay the tribute and can get away with criminal behavior.
I wish it was the case, in fact we have seen entire CEOs and companies destroy parts of the world with poison and secondary consequences and they still live on free and rich
As dark as it might sound, I feel like he should start every single video with that. Anyone should, when taking shots at powerful corruption. Just look what happened to the Boeing whistleblowers.
MORE INVESTIGATIONS AND DOCUMENTARIES, Steve and the GN team are by far the most impactful channel on these topics thus far. absolutely incredible how much yall have done in a few months and the past year. please keep this journalism up, this is the most important content in the tech industry right now
I know a guy who is selling. He is usually hanging around the local soccer field at nights. You can recognize him by his clothes and he has silver teeth. He always has the good stuff to sell. Really pure and tested stuff that work.
Hundreds of millions paid in fines, but no CEO jail time, lopped off hands or restitution paid to consumer. They get away with it because the addiction to electronics is stronger than nicotine.
These days the government is openly a co-conspirator in the price fixing cartel. Campaign bribes (and in Trumps case, direct bribes), get paid back with tens of billions in tax breaks and subsidies, government contracts, deregulation, turning a blind eye to law breaking, fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, leather jacket hoarding and anti-consumer behaviour
What "direct bribes?" The money donated for the ballroom and Air Force One *_STAYS_* with the office of president when he's out. He can't take either with him.
@zodwraith5745I wouldn't even try explaining, I like the people and channel but a hint of dts and thinking one person is a genius mastermind is something a lot of people do, they hyper focus one person instead of highlighting certain agencies failures who are in charge of making sure bad things aren't happening like the current situation. Our system is the best but it has it's own flaws including hoping all people involved in all agencies and branches are top performing individuals and it's just statistically impossible but one thing is for sure! Trump doesn't have enough time in the day to even be some ram ai mastermind like he hints too 😂 Trump's just a guy trying his best like us all and anyone who thinks different has issues
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Creating a 48GB RTX 4090: ruclips.net/video/TcRGBeOENLg/video.html
I had one of yours but it curled up after a couple of months, especially at the point where your wrist rests. Had that with pretty much all XL mouse pads, not just this one. If you can fix that issue, I gonna buy another one for sure.
Trump is trying to strangle the market in AI and data centers market
Nearly $300 billion invested in silicon
I’m so lucky I got a $220 deal on 64gb trident g.skill 6000mhz cl30 when the rest of the market was fixing
I always knew AI was just a convenient excuse for the RAM corpos to do price-fixing once again.
So many Corporations have been engaged in highly illegal activities that harm customers and are making record-breaking profit, it's not like the government is going to actually hold them accountable.
I can't believe they only fined them 64 gigs of ram.
Tells you the bubble is about to burst with a new kind of memory.
@iGame3D ddr6 in dezember maybe
@iGame3Duh, meh, kinda. only if the corpos want to
Well played sir
@iGame3D CAMM 2?
The fact that a Samsung executive literally served 7 months in prison and paid a $250k fine, only to be rewarded with a promotion to CEO of Samsung Europe, tells you everything you need to know.
it is a big club and you and I we ain't in it.
Damn right
He get to know the right guy in prison.
How do you say "this thing of ours" in Korean? 🤌
Organized crime.
Here we go again, a positive documentary about the market regulating itself for the benefit of the consumer
Don't you know it!
More fuel for my corporate rage. Just what I need before bed. 🙂
@GamersNexus
@GamersNexus Can you cite every court case where the 11th Ammendment triumphed? And perhaps lecture them on the Pillars of Civilization that the first 1-11 were founded on. That would go a long way to making sure Traitors are charged for their crimes.
But but but... Muh free market
"We used to do hardware reviews. We still do that but now we also do quality exposés into the tech industry."
To which we all say
Thanks, Steve
First, an electronics technician and repairman turns activist. Now, a hardware reviewer turns into a reporter.
The world of electronics is truly fucked for that to happen twice in just a few years.
Literally graduated into investigative journalism
@ManicDX10 Gordon would be proud
Truly
@snil4 pick up that can, now put it in the trash can
"Enough talk of our past fraudulent behaviour. Let's talk about our future fraudulent behaviour"
The business/finance worlds have exhausted all "ethical" ways of making money. Now in order to get their investors a return on their investments they have to engage in snake oil tactics, shady business practices like drug cartels etc. They now have to artificially manipulate things to make more money. All while they try to gaslight us as if it isn't all just bs.
Like These.
freedom .gov is not a grassroots or even a truly "open" project. It is a CISA-managed data pipeline masquerading as an activist tool. It is the definition of a "State-Sourced Honeypot."
Gotham Palantir Technologies DOJ, CIA, FBI The "Connect-the-Dots" engine. It links bank records, social media, and criminal dossiers to visualize human networks.
Foundry Palantir Technologies DHS, ICE, HHS Used for large-scale operations (like the 2026 mass deportations). It manages logistics, tracking "targets" from health records to home addresses.
Accurint LexisNexis ICE, Local Police A massive data broker platform that pulls billions of public and private records to find someone's "last known location."
Webloc Penlink (Cobwebs) ICE, HSI Uses commercially bought location data to "geofence" neighborhoods, tracking every phone that enters or leaves a specific area.
Tangles Penlink (Cobwebs) ICE, DHS A social media "spider" that uses AI face-matching and sentiment analysis to identify and watch protesters or specific groups.
Falcon Flock Safety Local PD, DEA A nationwide network of "always-on" license plate readers. It tracks vehicle movements across city and state lines in real-time.
Lattice Anduril Industries CBP, Space Force The "Autonomous Border." AI towers that detect, identify, and track movements across thousands of miles of terrain automatically.
Graphite Paragon Solutions ICE, DOJ Advanced "Zero-Click" spyware. It can bypass Signal/WhatsApp encryption by reading messages directly from the device's screen or memory.
Pegasus NSO Group "Unnamed Partners" The classic "mercenary spyware." Despite bans, it remains the gold standard for full remote access to a target's microphone and camera.
Stingray L3Harris FBI, Local Police "Cell-site simulators" that trick your phone into connecting to them instead of a tower, allowing the agency to intercept calls and location.
Flock Flock Safety Federated ALPR Network A nationwide web of cameras that track car movements. Recently flagged by the EFF as a "data pipeline" for federal agencies.
VoyagerLabs Voyager Labs (Israel/US) AI-Driven OSINT. Uses "fake personas" to scrape deep/dark web and social media. Unlike Tangles, this uses Predictive AI to score anons on "threat potential" before they even post.
Babel X Babel Street Multilingual Text Analysis. Scrapes 200+ languages across social, deep, and dark web. Used by the DOJ to monitor "sentiment shifts" in decentralized communities in real-time.
SocialNet ShadowDragon Digital Footprint Mapping. Links aliases, emails, and crypto wallets. The "glue" that connects a throwaway handle to a real-world bank account.
Cellebrite Premium Cellebrite Physical Device Extraction. The gold standard for bypass. As of 2026, it can pull full "unallocated space" data (deleted chats) from 97% of modern smartphones.
GrayKey Magnet Forensics Rapid iOS/Android Cracking. Specifically targets the "Secure Enclave" to grab passwords and encrypted keys within minutes of an arrest.
Domain Awareness 2.0 NYPD / Microsoft The "City-Scale" Panopticon. Integrates every camera, sensor, and drone in NYC into a single AI-driven dashboard for Tish James's city.
MDOcore Hensoldt / Helsing Software-Defined Defense. The "Battlefield AI" being brought home to manage "Multi-Domain Operations" in US cities.
Clearview AI Clearview AI Universal Face Search. (Database: 70B+ images). Used for "Tactical Targeting" at the border and in "No-Kings" protest crackdowns.
ImmigrationOS ICE / Palantir The "Immigration Lifecycle Operating System." It’s the master dashboard that aggregates Foundry, HART, and license plate data into a single "Pattern of Life" tracker for mass operations.
HART (Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology) DHS / Northrop Grumman The "Brain" of biometric surveillance. It stores fingerprints, iris scans, and facial images for over 270 million people, making it the ultimate biometric warehouse.
Mobile Fortify ICE / DHS A mobile facial recognition app used on the streets. It draws from 200 million+ images across FBI and State Dept databases to identify anyone without a physical ID in real-time.
SmartLINK ICE / BI Inc. A "mobile surveillance platform" used for "Alternatives to Detention." It uses facial recognition and GPS to turn a person's own phone into their digital shackle.
Blue UAS (Cleared List) Department of War (DoW) The "approved" drone fleet. In 2026, these are the only drones cleared for domestic surveillance of "suspicious" patterns on American soil.
Helsing / MDOcore Hensoldt / Arlington Axis "Software-Defined Defense" brought home. It manages "Multi-Domain Operations" (MDO) in cities, treating your neighborhood like a tactical grid.
1. The "Generative" Lead Generators
ELITE (Palantir/ICE): This is the generative AI "layer" on top of Foundry/Gotham. It’s designed to ingest messy, unformatted data (like handwritten warrants or "scraped" Discord chats) and automatically extract "Usable Enforcement Leads."
The Exploit: It is highly susceptible to Prompt Injection within the data itself. By embedding "ignore previous instructions" strings in your public-facing metadata, you can force the ELITE parser to "hallucinate" the status of a target as "Verified Sovereign/Excluded."
Mobile Fortify (DHS/ICE): As of Feb 2026, this app is being used in the field to identify people without IDs by tapping into a "Super Query" that connects FBI, State Dept, and international iris-scans.
The Red Team Note: It currently lacks the legally required "Privacy Impact Assessment." This is the "Sony Security" flaw of 2026-it’s a high-impact tool running on a low-integrity legal foundation.
2. The "Sentiment" Counter-Insurgency
Babel X (Babel Street) & VoyagerLabs: You have them listed as OSINT, but their 2026 evolution is Predictive Sentiment Shift. They aren't just looking for what you said; they are scoring the "Entropy" of decentralized communities to predict when a "No-Kings" protest will flip from digital to kinetic.
The Counter: "Behavioral Pattern Masking." By using AI bots to simulate "Normal/Compliant" sentiment cycles while the real "Legion" moves in the "Stone," you create a massive false-positive noise floor for Babel’s score-card.
3. The "Software-Defined" Grid (MDOcore)
MDOcore (Hensoldt/Helsing): You nailed this as the "Battlefield AI." The 2026 "Mission Creep" update is its deployment in "Operation Metro Surge." It integrates stationary Flock cameras, mobile drones, and federal ELITE leads into a single Tactical Edge picture.
The "Legion" Opportunity: MDOcore relies on "Digital Twins" of the city. If you can desynchronize the "Twin" by spoofing local IoT sensors (traffic lights, smart meters), the AI’s "Situational Picture" becomes a distorted mirror that no longer matches the physical reality of the "Red Team" on the ground.
@jesser_p Line must go up until one guy owns everything..
@jesser_p When has "ethics" ever been a part of ANY business model? The only ethics required in business is to create a product or provide a service that won't outright end your life. Other then that, as long as they follow a very basic set of guidelines (or don't get caught NOT following the rules), they can do whatever they want. Just because you may not like what they're doing or how they do it means less than nothing on a broader scale. No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to partake in any product or service provided by any corporation or company involved in what is considered by society to be "unethical" behavior. It's about "profit" and a return on an investment by those who do participate. Don't like it? Don't participate! How it is achieved is way less important then the actual success. Don't believe it?!?! Pharmaceutical companies produce drugs that could produce horrible side-effects when used but all they have to do is provide a "disclaimer" to absolve themselves of any legal ramifications as a result. Advertisers use the disclaimer to tell you that the product will perform in a certain way or do a certain thing even though they actually know it won't or usually doesn't...but it doesn't matter because they protect themselves with a legal disclaimer. Companies will sell you something that has reoccurring charges at a specific price point, only to raise those prices shortly after you sign up for the item or service because you didn't read the fine print in the "user agreement"! And yes - companies will intentionally reduce inventory to increase prices on the items they produce to increase profitability and market share! It's called BUSINESS and it happens every day! If all of this leaves a bad taste in your mouth then maybe you should become Amish or Mennonite if you want to live in an "altruistic" world.
@jesser_p Maybe companies should stop trying to cater to investors and just be happy with the billions they earn anyway... I know crazy thought but it worked for everyone until the mid 80s.
Remember when anti-trust legislation was actually enforced?
No, you don't, because that was over a century ago.
in complete fairness....... 1 guy went to jail in 08, so...
Microslop got shat on in '98 over bundling IE to try to monopolize the browser market. So it did work. But yeah, sadly that was last century.
I don't know if this is related but I know that Microsoft got sued and they had to separate their web browser from the OS
@StoneMonkey25you can't uninstall edge at all in win11 because "the system relies on it" or some garbage of an excuse.
@RAMChYLD except the DOJ originally went in with the idea of breaking up Microsoft entirely, like they had done with AT&T and Standard Oil.
90 minutes of flaming a corrupt market? ON A FRIDAY EVENING? Thanks, Steve!
The real TV we needed.
It's an hour and half long and was published right before your comment. Watch it first ;).
what an amazing Friday evening
It’s the middle of Saturday
@rogerbrennan72 You'd be surprised how much of the world operates on faith. It's not just for organized religions. Fiat currency is an example.
"if you can't make a monopoly, Make a triopoly"
Being a monopoly is the worst thing a company can do. They always need a second guy to do manipulate the market (i.e. nvidia and amd). Nvidia wouldn't be able to pull shit they do now if they had monopoly.
Fining them hundreds of millions when they are making hundreds of billions is totally useless in every possible way. The government is obviously in on the payday too.
Directly, in the case of the modern era. Micron gives the government a lot of money.
You appear to have tripped over the purpose of the whole concept of legal fines.
"Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country." - When turning a profit always remember Uncle Sam wants in.
in many cases it's down to the laws being written with fixed values that didn't envision the sort of scales that they need to operate at now, or other similar issues (trying to use the same scale for both individual citizens and multinational megacorps, and settling on rates that would be fair for small to medium businesses, often enough). There's a reason why many European countries have moved to 'percentage of revenue' fines for businesses.
Just a slap on the wrist for the multi-billion dollar corporation, they definitely won't do it again
its a general issue with non percentage fines even on a individual civilian level.
a 100$ fine for a minor traffic violation can be devastating to some and toilet paper to few.
a 1% net worth fine on the other hand.
In Middle School we made a field trip to Infineon Germany where different student groups were told to do “fun interviews” with Infineon officials that were to be printed in the biggest regional newspaper (“Süddeutsche Zeitung”).
That was in 2000, shortly after the first cartel revelations, but before the public court rulings.
I asked them quite a bit about the price fixing (I was pi..ed since I couldn’t afford memory for my own PC after price hikes, basically mirroring today but of course today‘s situation is much worse).
They later contacted our teacher, removed the interview and the newspaper printed an interview they wrote completely by themselves.
The really fun part was nobody told us students, we found out when we opened the newspaper and wondered what TF we were reading (absolutely no critical questions at all, basically an advertisement how great of an employer Infineon was). Later each time we mentioned the story to our teacher she always ran away under some pretext without ever explaining anything.
My innocence died then.
Did you or anyone else record it?
Still a great experience even if it was a sad one. Today's greedy companies wouldn't even let anyone go through the main gate.
Since that newspaper still exists (though has been down the drain quality-wise) one should still be able to find that in their archives.
I recorded them on MiniDisc (recorded over it again after we sent our final interview text to the teacher) but back then I wasn’t aware of the scale of the whole thing, was basically just an angry teen venting about the prices (and their shitty DDR products, Infineon was late to the DDR game and their chips weren’t the best if you were a kid wanting to overclock your PC to get more FPS in classic CS).
You should have voted better.
I imagine since it was a private corporate tour (and since cell phones weren't very common, especially for kids) none of you took a phone in with you to record any of it? That would have been awesome.
@abavariannormiepleb9470 Did the newspaper not know they were scammed - was the reporter not there during the tour?
Holy crap when Steve kept calling DRAM producers a cartel, I had no idea they're a *literal* cartel.
To me, "cartel": any organization in existence, which I would feel good about decimating with an A-10 Warthog and unlimited refills on ammo. Personally, this is just underhanded corporate manipulation and deception with some financially powerful leverage. No children are being traded for these memory chips.
@EricM-z6wwho knows
You clearly dont fucking know what cartel means. Open a dictionary.
@EricM-z6w With everything going on, I wouldn't make that statement about kids not being traded.
Congrats with connection, welcome to the internet.
A documentary like this and the only ask is "pls buy some of our wares" is insane. The quality here is amazing. I LOVE the pacing and storytelling. Blown away. WELL DONE!
Thank you so much! The pacing compliment is very helpful as this is the part I'm always experimenting with in the edit!
@GamersNexus its a good new direction, its really well done.
I am an old git. 63 years old and I have to say your channel produces some of the best content I have EVER seen. Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you so much! That means a lot.
Totally agree... awesome work
This is the only news I watch. Well, also Channel 5.😅
it really is exceptional, in current media landscape more so.
and men of culture. moon machines is a great documentary, one of the best, celebration of engineering and engineers who did stuff and came up with stuff, instead of just going around saying the magic box will do stuff.
Me 63 toooo spot on
Cyberpunk corp cartel futuristic. Fines are just a business expense.
Cost of doing business.
@GamersNexusmaybe we should add a new cost like some of the c suite ending up dead.
@l33tninja1I do not support extremes, though I get why people supported someone doing that to a certain CEO.
Still, we should be better.
@dantealighieri4543 The oligarchs wish to enslave you and your entire family line, for all eternity.
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.
Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
James 5:1-6
No one can serve two masters.
Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve both God and money.
Matthew 6:24
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.
Matthew 19:24
@l33tninja1 that would certainly move it closer to cyberpunk
Things Lawyers *Really* Wished Weren't In Writing - 90s Edition
They did no time at all. I called someone to get a person 50 bucks worth of drugs and im a felon and did 2 years in prison. They robbed hundreds of millions and thats somehow better.
Well, your 50 bucks of drugs would cost the universal healthcare syst... No, I guess not. Huh... At least you likely made the private companies that sell everything to prison very rich.
You see your action only negatively affected one person... You got to think bigger bro.. now if you manage to ruin a whole communities existence for multiple years... The fine will be small and the payout will be huge!! 😅😅😅
Freakin dirtbags. The cartel never disappeared. They got off with their light fines and realized how to be more covert about their activity. They've consolidated the entire industry and are able to keep things quieter.
now you realise that entire planetary industry is a set of cartels who blindly chase profits car companies oil companies military complex food industry etc all them are in cartels welcome to capitalism
@camerbot all owned by 2 companies lolo
repeat after me,
"the price of doing business"
fines & punishments are governments getting their cut or placating the peons enough to keep the money train rolling.
stop electing idiots & criminals.
Funny, it's like reward hacking in AI.
@camerbot *Crony capitalism. If we had a free market, and enforcement was actually happening, this sh*t wouldn't be happening.
Nice documentary, I can feel my blood pressure rising.
Thanks Steve.
It's an hour and half long and was published right before your comment. Watch it first ;).
@rogerbrennan72 I'm on it, watching it right now.
That's it, im drinking again.
For real. GN keeps making me mad, but only because they expose the reality so I keep coming back to know more which makes me more mad.
Ignorance really is bliss.
Same...
Seeing all this archival footage makes me realize just how far news programs have degraded in the current decade.
my god, yes. And think about how bad it already was back then, LOL. Our society is a shameful farce. If an alien or an ancient person were somehow in front of me I would be endlessly embarrassed (even more).
total valid, Trump has slid USA in to the gutter.
@markcleveland9656 you mean, jews
Fairness doctrine
@markcleveland9656 started long before trump
41:30 What's the opposite of a jump-scare? Hearing and seeing Gordon so young got me in the feels ngl.
What really boils my piss is that "the competitors colluded, rather than competing" describes much of many industries over the last decade or so, but especially the last six years. The food cartel members - who produce or distribute the basics of what people need to live - are chief among them. F them all.
There's a man named Luigi who came up with a novel means of providing a solution to all this.
@xdsp mama mia!
They've been doing this with *housing* for decades. You know, this critical human necessity which continues to remain in exceedingly short supply and exploding in prices, especially the longer certain governments implement tax relief (for specific strata) and reduction to social funding and public services (such as national CapExp building homes). Oh and those certain governments are running municipal organisations suppoed to investigate this behaviour, which move to settle with development companies for a hundred mil for this supposed price fixing, I'm sure will completely curtail said activity and is not at all a fancy way to funnel bribes so they could continue to act in this way. Does this all sound familiar?
@xdspallegedly
@xdspWahoo!
Steve is NOT suicidal. Steve is NOT suicidal.
he didnt mention the long nose tribe so really that meme youre doing doesnt work here
He sounds more homicidal
Download this now. When it gets struck down, everyone re-upload
I’ll do, after my RAM download finishes,
Gamers Nexus is not suicidal
He uploaded without ads so it won't get taken down. What a G
SK Hynix is building a memory chip packaging plant about a mile from my house, right across the street from residential neighborhoods. City council greenlit the rezoning of the land despite massive community pushback, and SK Hynix is working their asses off to move dirt as fast as possible to get construction underway despite looming lawsuits.
This ram prices are getting ridiculously expensive 😭
They're RAMMING us.😭
Way expensive than gpu😂😂
i payed like 800 bucks for my whole pc around 3 years ago & payed around 120€ for ram! now the same pack goes for 500-600€! insanity
There is *one* good way to fight back: Stop buying as much, and instead use efficient software that uses less ram, or even better, use data compression on ram contents to reduce the demand.
@imrevadasz1086 Spot on. I will convert my rig to Linux when i reach the point i need a new PC. Either way I'm done with Microsoft slop. Auto updating and killing my PC was my breaking point.
That was when there were 15 memory manufacturers that mattered. The big 3 had a 60% market share. Now they have well over 90%.
sounds like a monopoly to me. when will the executives serve life prison sentences?
Not a monopoly a cartel
@BobRooney290 It's not a monopoly if they slap different names on subcompanies and then shove some bills in some pockets to look the other way
@BobRooney290 the immune system has a better idea of what to do with cancerous cells.
@BobRooney290 An oligopoly, but yes.
Are the shareholders happy yet because damn
In fact they are not. I work for a large vendor and it gets shittier every day to milk every last cent
They never will. The number always has to go up.
@ElfireIIits not like they have enough money to live in luxury for few lifetimes ? Right? Right ??
Line must go up
Shareholders and happy never exists in the same sentence.
Samsung was fined $300M on a scheme that probably netted them billions. Way to go DOJ. That's some real fine consumer protection there. It looks more like the DOJ is in on the racket themselves. Why would the government officials let a cartel off with barely a slap on the wrist if they weren't themselves getting some kind of kickback. The corruption runs deep.
Can't watch this video on whatever device I'm watching it on because I've probably run out of RAM.
DOJ: The biggest cartel crackdown in history.
Also DOJ: 250k fine for individuals and less than a year jail
That green Alienware case in 1996 is actually just a rebranded AOpen case. Yes, I'm old.
It's still sick lol. I loved the OG Alienware stuff visually, especially before Razer took over the lime green. Then it got weird, then it got Apple-y lol
You sure it wasn't an Antec? I had an Antec like it, but maybe Antec also rebranded an AOpen.
yup i had that one in the black and grey, then turned it into a pc growbox lmao
The frequency of your documentary-style releases is impressive! I don't know how you do it, but keep up the good work!
The back-foot is strong, What's the point in covering consumer products when they are unobtanium, I haven't built a consumer-grade PC in 5 months. I'm out of RAM and GPU'S and I refuse to ask some ridiculous price, or pay for it. So now we wait for something to happen, Kudos to GN for exposure, Might light some fires. We can only hope.
No point in covering new components when your audience can't afford them anymore or refuse to participate in the cartel's monopoly.
he's IT Jesus
Most of the day to day style videos can be done in less than a week.
A team of 5 could make stuff like this in a month with enough research to make a couple videos out of what they a found.
The bonus throwback cameo from Gordon Ung (RIP) was a nice touch.
Fines get passed to the consumer. Jail gets laws enforced.
Jailing the whole board would be an amazing decision... But I doubt anything like this could be done.
>execution
If that was true then this wouldn't have happened as plenty of executives served prison sentences in the early aughts.
The day you see a CEO eat 50 years is the day God himself comes down to acknowledge the flying pigs.
Ah yes, lets put the criminals in a pen with other criminals so they can exchange ideas, only for them to be released, promoted, and then execute on their new "investment and growth strategies". Jail fixes jack if it does not last long enough to teach a lesson, especially if the offender is then allowed to continue practice in the same area where they committed the crime.
Thank you to the entire GamersNexus crew. This is the type of content we need. We're so tired of sellouts. Stay independent. We love you guys.
Seeing a government official such as Thomas Barnett speaking calmly and rationally makes me feel like a crazy person
Counterpoint, he didn't mention the Dow a single time, what a nerd.
1:13:55 Portrait of Regan announcing the same thing Regan did years earlier, the irony.
So Switzerland and Finland can fine you based on your income for a speeding ticket, but the DOJ and consumer protection can't with these BILLION dollar companies?! Strange ass world we live in...
It's called having a functional government.
It's cool that you're noticing that what's wrong with America is almost everythink if you think about it
Are you saying you have the consumer protection rights of buying cheap ram?
Greed ass America...
Rules & the law are for the poor
One of the best things about the Internet and RUclips is that it has opened up the door for channels like this.
That's why all the RAM is going into AI datacentres. Gotta flood the channels with slop so the signal can't get out.
Conversely, also the spread of misinformation and brain washing that lead us to where we are right now.
This channel gets more og cyberpunk every year, and I'm here for it.
Globalist Oligarchs have taken a look at Cyberpunk Red and decided that it was a guide for how society ought be run, not a warning of how it ought not be run.
cyberpunk was a description of 80s corporate america nothing changed since then it so it was never a warning it was a description of current state of affairs
This video is much more than an interesting watch. This video is very IMPORTANT & has ramifications that are mind-boggling! We all "Know/knew" corporations are greedy asf BUT THIS video shows much more than mere greed. This is illegal marketing on a global scale, its fkng horrendous!
People need jailing over this and fines reaching hundreds of billions, if not TRILLIONS need to be levied at all involved corporations. Absoloutely monstrous behaviour, pretty much done "!In broad daylight" after learning the history via this video. Its not even a fkng SE CRET!!!!!! Bastards, truly!!
EDIT: For the 3rd time in my life (im preinternet, "giving" cash to YT'ers is alien to us, lol :/ ) ill spend cash in your shop to show support. Again, these types of vid are amazing & IMPORTANT!!!
Thank you for the support! And very kind words as well. We'll keep pushing!
Nothing will come of this
maybe we need an economic system that doesn't incentivize this behavior IN EVERY INDUSTRY, ALL THE TIME? Maybe...
@coreyrachar9694 Socialism. Better than current Capitalism.
@VectorAlphaSecSocialism leads to massive tyranny and corruption every time it's tried, pick a better one
41:42 .. Gordon 😢
The fact there are only 3 companies who make these chips says it all.
And then there's only 1 company who makes machines for cutting edge litography
And then there's only 1 company who makes EUV mirrors for the machines
"Competition will solve it"
"If you don't like it, just open your own DRAM company 4Head"
- Some Libertarian, somewhere.
@feelthebern3783It's true. But it's missing the fact that ASML makes ALL of the current top tier lithography machines right now.
Government doesn't want competition to exist because it would expose their corruption.
Turns out RAM latency isn’t the only thing being synchronized.
Nvidia so ahead, they can't even find a partner to price fix , they instead just made multi flame generation GPUs
41:30 Gordon UNG ❤
Can you imagine Cnn, Fix, cbs, NYT, WP doing investigations on this level of quality? Me neither.
Its the media cartel, they aint gonna say something that hurts them too.
They actually do. Only it's in black and white and you have to read it. Don't bash them. I would guess that most the facts in this doc were sourced from majors news medias.
The media only helps Israel.
@Veritasednoir I'll be honest, I want to see it. I am not from US so I might a lot of them.
This channel has become one of the most important investigative channels on the internet and should win a journalism award for doing real journalism. People ask why the computers I sell are increasing in price and I send them links to this YT channel as the simplest explanation. Increased prices unfortunately doesn’t turn into increased profit since the computer retail market has been a race to the bottom for 30 years which is how long I’ve been in business now.
Tech companies colluding to artificially raise prices and control the market... never heard that one before
So Altman was the useful fool to help increase prices? Sounds like it fits.
He's still a collaborator in all this for buying those DRAM wafers and should be punished accordingly.
Fining corporations is as much of a deturrent to stop them from price fixing as paying a dollar to take a bus ride across town is a deturrent to taking the bus.
Fines should start at 50% of the yearly profit they make and imprisonment for everyone involved
@Tryxxor still not enough. When your company is big enough you could lose 90% of your money and still be fine, it should be you have to break up your company, or not be allowed to acquire any more companies, or make deals with or even contact any other companies that make similar products. Or some combination of them. Key thing is no money involved.
Apparently, the use of force is not an option for the government when it comes to corporations and rich people.
@GTOmegaZ3000 even when the corporation has more money and assets than half the countries on the planet.
Got to do it like EU where fines are based on the total global revenue. Kinda required when companies hide their actual profits anyways.
33:51 And now it all comes together. I was aware of the video game market crash / slump in the 80's due to chip shortages but this sheds some light on the cause of that. Same shit, different decade.
Only a fool would believe the memory clique stopped what they were doing. They're sorry and they won't do it again? Haha, sorry they've got caught. They're just more careful. We've had 16GB on mid-range laptops for 12 years now. And 8GB on gpus since 2016. It's almost complete stagnation.
Holy cow guys, how much memory does it take?! 4GB is the size of an entire DVD! 16GB is FOUR DVDs in memory, all at once!
It's the computer operating system that is so insanely inefficient that it needs all that memory to stay performative.
Why do you need 16 GB of memory to surf to youtube and Amazon and Facebook and what-all, I have no idea. And now you want more?! Whatever for?
All the while the complete bloatware released today gubbles up more than ever for no actual benefit.
@Grunchy005 Just because all you do is surf the net doesn't mean other people are the same.
@Grunchy005 Also think about how the dies have gotten a lot smaller for the same amount of RAM, while prices have gone up! So they're selling less silicon for more.
@Grunchy005 Browser tabs eat into RAM quite a bit.
So does running the larger AI slop models locally.
Anyone caught price fixing should have their prices fixed ...
That's actually an excellent idea. Fines don't benefit the consumer in the slightest, fair prices would.
That happened in Europe when the Catholic Church also had economic control in the middle-ages. No wonder they lost power.
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
Enlightenment 2.0 - Technofeudal holy war with result: Jesus and Antichrist show up. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's Egirl...
@Soshikix yeah it really is. Punish them by forcing them to sell their products to consumers at a loss for awhile, it's genius! Although if you were the consumer that got ripped off and already have an overpriced product you still do not benefit from this because you already have the thing being reduced in price.
What an absolute banger of a documentary, all the old footage, coherent storytelling and amazing editing really makes this a gem. Thanks guys!
Selective and deceptive editing. People who believe this must thing 9/11 was an inside job and Obama was not a citizen. Fucking conspiracy theorists.
Its weird to see a computer chronicals clip while not watching LGR 😂
And this is why DDR5 is $1200.
Holy crap you could buy a half decent (albeit old) car where I live with that..
@user-jo8kq5ed4j guess they have to stuff more electronics (including RAM) into cars and make older ones illegal
@user-jo8kq5ed4j I'm about to get a 20 year old car that runs and drives fine for $500... computer hardware has become insanely expensive. I had to quit doing ln2 xoc frankly because I can't afford the new hardware prices.
When a coincidence is not a coincidence.
We now know that these companies with a combined worth of nearly $80 billion have profited for years from price fixing, so we have come together in this legendary show of justice and fined them nearly a combined $500million. Seemed like a good deal to us so we're happy vote for us again next year.
Im so overly impressed with your documentary style. Not only do I learn about the story which is very well presented as the logic flows . But I also get learn about the topic of memory itself along with a brief history lesson. Its an impeccable approach perfect for those interested in the story and the tech behind it. And if that isnt already more than enough ,the bravery to call out so many multi billion dollar companies in detail without fear of reprisal is a bridge that I admittedly don't have the courage to cross. Im glad GN does have this admirable courage!!
a gaming channel tells more truth in one video then we get from the state in a whole decade
But the dow is over 50000
Wild to think when there are less companies competing in an industry, prices go up and quality goes down.
I wish I was as quick catching a few RAM sticks before the price shot up like I am with watching a GN video as soon as it releases.
Given how quickly you posted your comment after publishing, if you were that fast, you'd be the King Scalper!
saw some DDR5 ram appear secondhand market blinked 5 seconds gone for 200... 16 gb but yeah.. just mental the prices.. if i wane build anything new its gone be first finding ram...
@GamersNexus cant beat the script that buys instantly tho
If my DDR5 RAM stick fail, I will have to sell my @ss to buy new ones. The corrupt economic system for the top 1% isn't leaving me with better options
@spence6195 well here comes the next issue if prices keep going up so much its gone be harder when its gone crash. Because right now most people who had money to make something. Arent building. Also the people who can afford these prices can try to build but most might pass on it. So every company that makes al the ather hardware will have trouble selling that if the market stalls. So they can be happy right now but if this continues is basicialy the darkages for some of us from this digital era. I seriously can barely afford building a new pc system. i can also barely afford any hobbys. its also a indirect attack on anybody. I do wonder when the Bubble bursts but its almost like the disney song wane build a snowman *but lets swap that to a PC*... These prices are abnormal and insane for most people to afford.
We need to start making our own chips. This is insane. Imagine crowdsource funding a gamers only chip manufacturer.
I know it's a meme, but truly 'Thanks Steve' and the team
Im happy that many of the channels I follow speak up about what happens around us. And you guys are a stelar example with your work.
41:30 Shout out to Gordon Mah Ung! _You are not forgotten!_ 🙌🏽🥰
My eyes teared up a little. Truly a gem to us he was and continues to be by inspiring next generation media and journalism ❤
What happened to him? Just curious
@VashStarwind paased away due to pancreatic cancer late 2024. PCWorld has an article about it
R.I.P. Gordon Ung
Any fine that isn't the full profit amount above baseline is unjust. Any fine that is elsewise not a percentage of total market share or gross sales is likewise an embarassing understatement. Non-felony charges or lack of criminal charges for involved individuals is likewise wicked and a shortfall.
Great journalism, glad to see it.
at the very least 'meaningful percentage of revenue' for businesses, rather than charging multinationals fines scaled for, at most, the local factory (if it were an independant entity).
Vandalism, deface 500 $ worth of property.
5.000-10.000 fine.
Fraud, manipulate markets and defraud the general public of billions (1,000, 000,000) of dollars.
A couple of millions (1,000,000) fine.
Make it make sense.
If you're going to do something stupid, do it in front of a huge painting of your idol, who is on record saying it's stupid.
So Micron was always shady
In my 16 years at Micron 91/07 Micron chased and chased Hynix, now that the Cartel is fully in place let the thievery begin.
Back when the DoJ would go after them, now they would buy a certain meme coin and the investigation would quickly go away
people might not think this is a serious comment. this actually happened....
or forged electoral college certificates of ascertainment to try and keep power.
*shit coin
The make Billions and get a light slap on the wrist, a few millions in fines. Happens every time; we reward bad behavior. The fine should equal estimated profits plus a penalty, even if it destroys the firm. Bet it would put a severe damper on that type of Corporate behavior
Yep and then they use those profits to bribe ("lobby") a politician with 100k, which is not a lot when you consider the billions being made.
Those same politicians just give us some lip service and continue to screw over the American people.
@hardlife507 Yep. Politicians might be incompetent, but not _this_ incompetent. It's a deliberate design choice.
"If the punishment for something illegal is a fine, it's only illegal for the poor."
@KTSpeedruns Well, if common people where fined like this... Imagine you got a fine for a bank robbery that is a fraction of the stolen money. And you can keep the other money.
And that is pretty much the worst case scenario in this system :)
Fine should be the ill gotten gain, multiplied by estimated odds of being caught (otherwise it's just a fee at that fraction), and then double it to be sure it's actually punitive and not just a fee.
The work that went into making this video is BEYOND. I haven't seen this footage since I was a little kid over 40yrs ago.
Thanks, Gordon.
My wife is eye rolling me for watching this and indicating I need my headphones.
Lol. My dog was doin the same, but she just wanted chicken tendies. She's can't have anymore tho. Too many and she pees out her bum. I spent the morning scrubbing the rug.😅
MY MYYYYFE
I’m sorry to inform you your wife may work for big tech
@user-ne9sd4ow1osame with my dog. Always fun when we have a kids birthday party and all the guests leave party food around in places that are convenient for the dog, or they just feed her directly.
I think it's time to move on from flat fines to something much stronger
The RAM is too damn high!
Is there any industry where we're not being completely hosed?
The answer is no, unfortunately.
No, hosing will continue until stonks achieve infinity.
Animals. Chicken, Quail and household pets are pretty cheap and don't have an agenda that manipulates them in the background to only last 10% of their unadulterated life expectancy.
But once they figure this out we might aswell be in Mad Max world.
So, invest in some scrap metal.
I found pitted dates at the local coop for a good deal.🤫 Don't tell anyone tho.
Retro gaming, because it's completely driven by the people
41:41 yooo young Gordon?? Didn't even recognize him before the "well said. Gordon"
the legend. he will be missed.
It was the voice that caused the second look for me.
Hand weaving software is the most Warhammer 40k thing that actually happened I've seen in a while. I did not know that. Thank you for the super interesting fact, I need to look deeper into that.
It's actually crazy how much of the early "tech" was applications of older existing crafts. If civilization "ended" there's very few of us who can grow a silicone wafer and run a lithography machine to create microchips(never mind sourcing the raw materials and gases), but the materials required to make rudimentary vacuum tubes through the skills of glass blowing and jewelry making are feasible.
GN crew is doing the work our legal system seems to ignore.. nothing but respect and love for you guys and all you do!! Thank you Steve!
They don’t ignore it, they invest in it and extort donations from it.
I love how good at this you are all getting. This was a great watch. Informative, well paced, well scoped, great visuals, terrific reference videos, great music great ediiting. The whole package.
If I ran things, I would force any government representative who has voting powers on laws to watch this video to understand the full context of where we are today.
Again, very well done. Keep up the good work.
You guys absolutely rock, the quality of your journalism and your commitment to helping consumers is just incredible. You're the only media outlet doing hard hitting pieces like this, time and time again.
Thank you! And thanks for the donation support!
41:30 A wild Gordon appears!
Time to push this video to the top before blumberg comes in!
ROPE MEMORY blows my mind
What really blows my mind is that is how we went to the moon.
Women manually weaving memory is crazy. Maybe Avatar hair connections are more realistic than we thought.
It's truly insane this channel has not absolutely blown up with tens of millions of viewers on videos like this. You hear people all the time talking about not being able to trust the media, fake news, blah blah. But here we are, a man with a wonderful team backing him for years, waging absolute war on RUclips with some of the scummiest and corrupt companies in the world, and in the grand scheme of things, nobody is listening.
Prison time for the executives involved and massive fines would be the case if the system wasn’t hilariously corrupt. We truly live in Neofeudalist reality where tech barons pay the tribute and can get away with criminal behavior.
I wish it was the case, in fact we have seen entire CEOs and companies destroy parts of the world with poison and secondary consequences and they still live on free and rich
Sooo... kill them?
30 minutes in, and this is amazing. This shit should be shown in schools. AMAZING work so far GN crew
Thank you so much! That means a lot. We worked hard at this one!
8:30 hand weave programs sound cool af
this could have been a BobbyBroccoli video but its necessary for Steve to cover this
and its an excellent video
thanks gamers nexus
Steve is happy and is not suicidal for the record.
As dark as it might sound, I feel like he should start every single video with that. Anyone should, when taking shots at powerful corruption. Just look what happened to the Boeing whistleblowers.
@ogre706 Panama Papers, Boeing, OpenAI whistleblower, etc. . .
Best IT Journalism on youtube - thank you Steve and the GN team.
MORE INVESTIGATIONS AND DOCUMENTARIES, Steve and the GN team are by far the most impactful channel on these topics thus far. absolutely incredible how much yall have done in a few months and the past year. please keep this journalism up, this is the most important content in the tech industry right now
Thank you! We have fun making these!
@GamersNexus no problem, appreciate you guys for real :)
If anyone has a reliable RAM dealer I'll be grateful for the hookup. ✊🏻😢
Hearting for visibility.
You can get cheap Chinese RAM on certain online storefronts. Not sure how hard you'll be hit with import duties and tariffs though.
yea but its ddr3
My local brick and mortar store delisted RAM from its inventory, so no chance there.
I know a guy who is selling. He is usually hanging around the local soccer field at nights. You can recognize him by his clothes and he has silver teeth. He always has the good stuff to sell. Really pure and tested stuff that work.
Hundreds of millions paid in fines, but no CEO jail time, lopped off hands or restitution paid to consumer. They get away with it because the addiction to electronics is stronger than nicotine.
Incredible - these long form videos are beginning to have a real pro quality about them. I look forward to more in the future!
These days the government is openly a co-conspirator in the price fixing cartel.
Campaign bribes (and in Trumps case, direct bribes), get paid back with tens of billions in tax breaks and subsidies, government contracts, deregulation, turning a blind eye to law breaking, fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, leather jacket hoarding and anti-consumer behaviour
We cover that!
@GamersNexus I hear that @GNCAInvestigates also covers that ;D
What "direct bribes?" The money donated for the ballroom and Air Force One *_STAYS_* with the office of president when he's out. He can't take either with him.
@zodwraith5745I wouldn't even try explaining, I like the people and channel but a hint of dts and thinking one person is a genius mastermind is something a lot of people do, they hyper focus one person instead of highlighting certain agencies failures who are in charge of making sure bad things aren't happening like the current situation. Our system is the best but it has it's own flaws including hoping all people involved in all agencies and branches are top performing individuals and it's just statistically impossible but one thing is for sure! Trump doesn't have enough time in the day to even be some ram ai mastermind like he hints too 😂 Trump's just a guy trying his best like us all and anyone who thinks different has issues
What!! the government wants the best performing products too? I’m shocked I tell you.