Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
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Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
#2Shades of mp3 dot com, which was once the Bandcamp of its day but now is owned by CBS Interactive and has been basically become a parked domain. I hope it doesn't go the same way.
ETA:
Of course, history doesn't repeat itself, it just rhymes. Mp3 dot com embarked on a music locker project that basically got it killed by the RIAA, and Bandcamp didn't repeat that mistake.
Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
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Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
#4Shades of mp3 dot com, which was once the Bandcamp of its day but now is owned by CBS Interactive and has been basically become a parked domain. I hope it doesn't go the same way. ETA: Of course, history doesn't repeat itself, it just rhymes. Mp3 dot com embarked on a music locker project that basically got it killed by the RIAA, and Bandcamp didn't repeat that mistake.
Notably, artists on bandcamp often belong to smaller record labels. I'm not sure to what extent the RIAA deals with it at all, so I wonder what the existential threat could be.
Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
#5ooof. Bandcamp is the only place I know of that provides an actually user-friendly experience for buying music. They've seemed maybe a little too good to be true in this modern age.
Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
#6Bandcamp wasn't on my enshittification bingo card
Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
#7> customer support specialist ed blair and software engineer Blade Barringer
Weird editing here—one name in lowercase?
> posted on X (formerly Twitter)
Speaking of editing—oh my, are we going to do this parenthetical forever?
> Barringer, the Bandcamp software engineer, says that a handful of engineers are still performing the critical tasks needed to keep the site running, but otherwise they can’t commit new code. He found a minor bug this week but couldn’t access the program he needed to fix it.
This is interesting! They're locked out of the tools for committing code, but have production access? (SSH?)
But if they are trying to demonstrate their necessity and want to form a union, not doing those critical tasks may be a better idea? If the company is not showing interest in supporting you, don't support the company?
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Which comments sounded entitled? I didn't get that from any quotes in TFA.
Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
#9So many great companies die this way. Bought by a big corporation with no idea what to do with all their money, neglected, then sold to some monopolist that doesn't give a damn outside of squeezing the market.
Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
#10> customer support specialist ed blair and software engineer Blade Barringer Weird editing here—one name in lowercase? > posted on X (formerly Twitter) Speaking of editing—oh my, are we going to do this parenthetical forever? > Barringer, the Bandcamp software engineer, says that a handful of engineers are still performing the critical tasks needed to keep the site running, but otherwise they can’t commit new code. H…
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