• lipilee@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    this. pirate all you want, netflix/disney/etc. will be fine. but find and support the artist. this is why i’m now stuck with the crap news around bandcamp. there are less and less ways to support creators instead of the leeches every day :(

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        1 year ago

        bandcamp was sold to epic games in 2022 and again to songtradr this year, and half its staff got laid off recently. CEO said that it was not profitable enough - though it was already very profitable. So it’s likely to start squeezing every penny out of users and artists in the next few years

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        There were news of trouble a couple of weeks ago: sold (earlier) twice, layoffs, union problems, uncertainty :(