Okay, as someone who's studying/wants to enter the music industry, let me clear this up for y'all:
It's not some illuminati conspiracy. There's just a LOT of greedy people trying to hold onto a system that can very easily screw over an artist. There's corruption and greed, like any industry, but it's not a conspiracy. It's more complicated than a conspiracy. Conspiracies like this are just a way to dumb down the actual problems of human nature. An entire industry can't be "exposed" in a ****ing YouTube video. The world just isn't that simple. It's a simple-minded way of trying to look at a complex system of thousands of people.
Also, there's a lot of marketers/managers/directors etc. who know this Illuminati **** will create easy free promo.