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Pirate Bay Promotion Attracts Over 5000 Artists
redletterdave writes "While the movie and music industries would have you think that torrents are a threat to their business, thousands of independent artists heartily disagree. That's why more than 5,000 musicians, actors, writers, filmmakers and artists have signed up to be promoted by The Pirate Bay, the world's largest torrent site. Earlier this year, following the seizures of many popular file-sharing domains like MegaUpload, The Pirate Bay introduced a new promotion platform for artists called 'The Promo Bay,' which let independent artists reach tens of millions of people by offering favorable advertising spots on the The Pirate Bay's homepage. The response to The Pirate Bay's promotion platform has been overwhelming: the company announced on Thursday that it has already received more than 5,000 applications, and has managed to be a quality platform for driving significant interest to independent artists."
The artists have spoken, the consumers have spoken the music industry is evolving. Either the RIAA and big music evolve with the rest of the industry or face inevitable extinction.
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I'm listening right now to a PB song: Unite by Djjage
I teach spin classes and use almost all indie rock and electro rock. Every time, people ask me for the artists and comment on how good the music is.
Fuck the labels, all of them. They're useless and intolerant and dangerous. Actually, let's not fuck them. I like my dick to not fall off.
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I'm one of the 5000 artists that submitted to this campaign. All of the music on my page can be downloaded for free. For artists like me who have only dozens of listeners, the exposure is worth any potential loss of income. http://soundcloud.com/jordanbla
It puts the control back in the hands of the creator where it belongs. The only ones I can see against it would be the corporations that want to exploit the artists work. Wait until one of them signs with a major distributor and see how fast the demands to take the work down show up. It's when the corporations get involved that things fall apart. Artists are always looking for ways to promote themselves while corporations only care about how much money they would make off it.
I would quite like to look at this site however, my isp says access is blocked by court order
so i can't access these independent artists legally...
On the 24 July 2009, an Order was made by the High Court requiring eircom to block or otherwise disable access by its subscribers to the website thePirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs. The Court was satisfied that on the basis of the evidence presented by the record companies that the PirateBay website is a website that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted sound recordings without the consent of the copyright owners.
eircom recognises the legitimate rights of the owners of copyrighted material and believes that individuals who share or download copyrighted material without the authorisation or the permission of the copyright owner are acting illegally.
The Order further provides that should the PirateBay website content be legitimatised in the future, then eircom has liberty to apply to the Court to have the Order vacated and access to the PirateBay website enabled.
eircom in compliance with the Order has agreed that access to the website the PirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs from the eircom network will be blocked indefinitely from the 1st September 2009.
is the content hosted at http://thepiratebay.se/promo enough to change anything?
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I understand Promo Bay requests submitters list the top 3 countries, presumably for geo-targeting, but I wish the TPB folks would at least put up a web page that lists ALL of the published promos from every country.
I love discovering new music, and love listening to music from all over the World. I'd hate to not discover some awesome music from say Gabon or Tanzania or India because the submitter didn't put USA as one of the Countries.
that I try to promote when I can is http://www.ektoplazm.com/ Tons of good free electronic music on there.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
It seems to me that with something like Kickstarter it would be pretty easy for any musical artist to get pre-funded as long as he has some good songs to post as enticement or already has some renown for making good music. I think this whole crowd-sourcing patronage idea is going to be game changing in a lot of artistic fields. A new paradigm for the digital age. Music, film, game development, fiction writing. Basically anything that can be represented digitally and distributed to people who make donations is a natural to be directly funded by fans or potential fans of the work. I would like to think that this could lead to a Tunguska level explosion of creativity, a new Renaissance for a new age as part-time artists with a day job can suddenly quit and work on their craft full time. Once they get funded piracy doesn't matter. Your loyal fans will still buy a legit copy and the free riders are irrelevant. The artists are happy because they are getting paid to do what they love. The fans are happy because their favorite artists are encouraged to exercise their talents as much as possible. And the bloodsucking middlemen are left out in the cold where they belong.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
This kind of points out why the RIAA and the MPAA (who are incestuous siblings) will now have to seriously up the ante in their attacks on the Pirate Bay.
There isn't any way that they can allow competition in a market that their cartel controls. Dammit!!! They paid good money for their monopoly so their senators better get cracking to wipe them out.
Big "so what". Soundcloud has 10 million. There are way too musicians in general these days, and of course most of them suck and are desperate for publicity and will grab whatever they can get.
And as a musician, why the hell would I think that Piratebay of all places would be even a decent curator of music compared to the thousands of other places that offer the same kind of curated promotion? And finally, just couldn't feel that good over a place promoting my music through publicity earned by violating the copyrights of thousands more musicians.
This will be interesting in the same way that Microsoft supporting Apple was interesting. Microsoft reportedly wanted to appear to have competition, so it supported a flailing Apple. Microsoft was being scrutinized from about 1990, and the formal case was 1998, so $150 Million in support plus development on the platform certainly could have been solely to keep the anti-trust investigators happy.
Attacking YouTube as a haven for piracy, and then shutting down a viable self-publishing model would certainly be anti-competitive. And since these are not individual companies, but instead collectives, this might form the basis of a good RICO style collusion investigation. At some point, the reach of their campaign contributions has to stop as they run afoul of unelected officials.
Exactly, this is the REAL threat that filesharing represents to the RIAA/MPAA, and why they're terrified. It has nothing to do with "piracy" and everything to do with competition to their monopoly distribution model.
Unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.