Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    I feel like Bandcamp’s biggest fans are prolific pirates with a conscience who just want to see their favorite artists actually get paid.

    EDIT: Don’t forget it’s Bandcamp Friday today.

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        9 months ago

        But we’ll still need a proper place to support our favorite creators (where the artists actually receive some of the money). I wonder where people will migrate next.

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            9 months ago

            Haven’t heard about that one, thank you for the heads-up.

            First impressions:

            • From top 10 artists i follow:
              • 5/10 have profile and uploaded at least one song on Bandcamp.
              • 3/10 have an account on Audius (possibility to donate).
              • 1/10 has uploaded at least one song on Audius.
            • One MUST upload a profile picture to create an account.
              • About 1/3 of proposed artists during account creation have uploaded <5 songs, most seem to be remix and cover artists.
              • Didn’t figure out how to search for artists during account creation, ended up choosing 2/3 artists I’ve never heard of.
            • Not immediately apparent whether I can download bought music to a lossless format.
            • Not sure how to buy album or individual song at first glance.
            • LOTS of remixes and covers, not so much original songs (this is both good and bad).
            • Nice that you can donate arbitrary amount without buying anything, in case you already got the music from… other places…
              • I didn’t find anyplace where “$AUDIO” is explained, how much the artist receives, or what you receive if anything.

            Less relevant observations:

            • weird pause/play button, sometimes there’s just a loading wheel spinning where it’s supposed to be, not really functional.
            • Slightly intrusive, had to disable some plugins (Javascript (obviously it’s playing music) and fingerprinting (cloudflare?)) for the site to load. Not relevant to music, but just a general observation since we’re in the piracy community.

            Not much going on by now, but it probably just needs some time to grow and assimilate the likely soon-to-be-migrating Bandcamp user base. I’ll keep an eye on it, and probably revisit it once more artists have migrated to it.

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              9 months ago

              Thanks for the detailed obesrvation! Yeah unfortunately it still has some technical issues and shortcomings but imo this platform has some great potential.

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        9 months ago

        The economics with the artists haven’t changed. Until they do I’ll still use them to pay artists a living wage.