Now, thanks to the High Court ruling, no aspiring musician will be able to use The Promo Bay to gain exposure in the UK. Thousands of musicians have applied, eager for their work to be given the spotlight that traditional, industry-sanctioned channels will never allow. If the British Phonographic Industry had gotten their way sooner, my album wouldn’t exist, Rupert wouldn’t have heard it, and perhaps his story might have taken a turn for the worse.Īnother example of how filesharing and creativity go hand in hand is The Promo Bay – The Pirate Bay’s launchpad for unsigned artists. After listening to the album, he realized that he wasn’t alone, and chose to face his problems. Rupert suffered the same problems, and was preparing to take his own life. A while after publishing the album I was contacted by a young man who I’ll call Rupert.
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Using this cracked software I produced an album about overcoming self-destructive thoughts and coping with Asperger syndrome. I was unemployed, so the choice wasn’t between downloading or purchasing. I also downloaded some industry standard plugins which would have cost thousands of pounds. Rather than buying a replacement, I downloaded a cracked version via The Pirate Bay. Eventually it stopped working altogether. Initially I bought a legitimate copy for several hundred pounds. I use a program called Cubase to compose my music. Let me tell you how filesharing has allowed me to turn my creative ambitions into something real. In fact, every musician I know utilizes filesharing in some form or another.
Or maybe it’s an underlying acknowledgement that to prevent infringement in any meaningful way would require the impossible feat of blocking every site on the internet that contains a hyperlink.ĭespite the industry’s readiness to insist that copyright infringement threatens the future of musicians – especially those who are lesser known – there are plenty of examples where the opposite is true. Perhaps it is not the infringement itself then, but The Pirate Bay’s notoriously defiant defense of its modus operandi that has made it a target. Sites like YouTube receive stratospherically higher amounts of traffic, and host hundreds of thousands of infringing videos. After all, it doesn’t host any infringing content, but serves as a hub for people who want to share their own files directly.
The Pirate Bay would seem an odd primary target for the British record industry’s hit list. Earlier this year, Dan had already written a song, Bye, Bye BPI, for that organization’s initial attempt to block The Pirate Bay, and we asked Dan to share his thoughts on TPB officially being blocked in the UK. We recently noted that, in the same week that Dan Bull had his new single hit the music charts because he promoted it via The Pirate Bay, BPI had convinced a court to order UK ISPs to start blocking TPB.
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