Comments on: UK ISPs will unblock The Promo Bay

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:39:00 +0000

“… the industry was either incredibly cavalier about censorship, or it cynically opted to screw over the artists who had the audacity to go it on their own.”

My money’s on “both of the above”.

By: good vibes

good vibes — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:10:00 +0000

While I don’t doubt that they would have done it deliberately out of malice, be careful assigning malice when the explanation is more likely common incompetence. Someone probably just pulled down a list of all the sites owned by TPB and sent that to the ISP’s.

Also, I think props should be given to Virgin Media for speaking up publicly. Since they don’t have the best track record on the subject, I suspect maybe the hand of Branson behind the suits. His kind of style.

By: soybeans

soybeans — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:03:00 +0000

So if I have this straight, the record companies want to be the sole source for music distribution, even for unsigned, independent artists?
Where they also bill all the up front recording and distribution costs to their contracted artists so many of them never see a dime in royalties for all their creative work and have to sell T-shirts at concerts for gas money?

This loathsome business model is a lot like a combination of vanity book publishing and the mafia.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:26:00 +0000

The lumbering dinosaur of the “record industry” is very jealous of artists making money without them. I doubt blocking promobay was even remotely accidental.

By: cdh1971

cdh1971 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:49:00 +0000

uncompressed,

Sometimes you about give subjects. Sometimes subjects about give you.

I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in that.

By: cakey pig

cakey pig — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:18:00 +0000

If you’re in the UK and you’re missing Pirate Bay then there is a mirror site called pirateshit.com that is exactly the same! :-)

By: Wiki-Truths

Wiki-Truths — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:08:00 +0000

Is this not just to distract us? Why would the gov care about indie artists sharing anything? They just care about the major movies/music. Just to make us mad and give us a “win.”

By: uncompressed

uncompressed — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:50:00 +0000

Cory, I like your writing and outlook a lot. If you wish to give credence to the subjects and issues you obviously care about, may I suggest applying a little quality control to the text. And I quote: “a site launched by The Pirate Bay to promote independent artists who didn’t having their material shared.”