Dubstep Generation

"Tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals." THIS is Dubstep. The music genre that my mom so nicely put... "What is this?" Dubstep originated in London, England and was more of a experimental darker version of the Dubstep now-a-days. Instruments of Dubstep include samplers, drum machines, synthesizers, a keyboard, and a personal computer! Interesting right? Not exactly the typical instruments of a... normal band. But when discussing the issue of sampling in class it made me realize that a lot of the dubstep songs I listen to are remixes of original songs. Soo, I did some research and realized that a lot of people had the same questions as me.

The most common question was something like, "If I decide I want to use part of a song in my dubstep version, will I get in trouble for not 'sourcing' the original?" And the short answer to this is... yes. But then I kept reading... one answer on a website I found was plain and simple- "bro if your song isn't going to make major airtime, or even be listened to locally, you're good." And, in a way I realized this guy was right... if the music your making is not going to be aired on the radio or to a large... very large amount of people how do you expect it to get back to the original artist? The answer is that it is not very likely. Which then brought forth the question, does that mean it is still illegal? Even if no one listens to what I'm sampling? Short answer- of course it is. Even shorter answer- who will know?
I found a couple examples just on youtube of this illegal behavior just by typing in dubstep remixes of 'popular songs.' Everyone knows the song Bullet Proof by La Roux but here's the remix. But the real question is, did they ask for permission to use the original song? And does more than 7 million views on youtube deam it popular enough to get in trouble? Or is it just as easy for La Roux herself to type in her song on youtube and sue everyone remaking her song? And this is when research came to a hault, it seems like a lot of people in the music industry do not want to admit that what they are doing is illegal because then... they could no longer do it.
Interesting.