To me the scariest part is the whole “Epic is a champion of free and open internet” sentence in the press release.
Considering Epic has been simply
Getting mad at monopolies because they were not one…
Then they started buying every big name and built an “ecosystem”…
So that now they are becoming their own monopoly…
And now we are supposed to be happy that the “good guys won”? What do they mean?
It’s scary because given Epic’s behavior in the past, it looks like a borderline gaslighting way of explaining the situation. Which doesn’t bode well for the future of Bandcamp.
We now need a new bandcamp in my opinion. After all the pro-artist stuff with bandcamp friday, this is a big disappointment. Epic wouldn’t buy it without the intent to monetize it further, at the expense of artists and in favor of themselves.
Mate I live in australia, its been apocalypse since the bushfires of 2019, then the following floods, then the pandemic that still has not stopped, now the current floods, and the impending war in Europe…
At least there’s the current sounds thread on here…
Does anyone use ArtStation? I am having a hard time finding a user community to try to gauge the reaction/experience of artists who sold/sell their work through it, both before and after Epic gobbled them up last year.
You might have better luck looking up SketchFab? More comparable product. Evidence of reduced revenue share down to 12% as other speculated (good thing), etc…
While that is absolutely my preferred way of doing things it’s unusual to find anyone with a CD player nowadays. Every time I hand one to someone they look at me like a dog that’s just been shown a card trick and ask what they’re supposed to do with it. I’d love to go back to that though.
So far it looks like standard procedure. New company, different ways of doing things. This is mostly to protect against class action lawsuits. You can still sue on an individual basis. (Not saying I agree…)
Music has more protections in the US legal system, especially if lyrics are involved so some of these changes shouldn’t be the same. They might have similar language for compression/converting mp3 to WAV or whatever. But at the end of the day a private company can remove your content. This just allows them to say you understood that.
See that’s the real underground, no one knows who the fuck I am
Still I think I will financially be ok without their pathetic royalty crumbs, fuck them and fuck these dickhead artists who sell out.
Rant
Like for example Snoop “Corporate dick swallower” Dogg - “Did somebody say just eat?” yes mate eat your own arse. Selling NFTs and buying fucking virtual “meta” real estate, what a G, straight outta CPT, which used to mean Compton, but now means corporate. Twat. <- British humour, not real rage, but an element of truth.
