unknown unsigned artist trying to use the pirate bay to get on the charts
 

no media buys
no record label

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...g-charts.shtml

and he is giving away all the music for free on torrents so you don't have to pay him a dime if you don't want to.


but wait porno jew and kane said it was impossible

you could only be successful if you were already famous because of a record deal.

dear gidiot, when another can replicate this without being a file sharing gimmick artist with songs like "Sharing is Caring" let me know.

already done

his name was jonathan coulton

code monkey charted

and so did
portal song he wrote for the game

and

lindsey stirling

and

so has zoe keating

. Zoë's self-produced album One Cello x 16: Natoma has four times made it to #1 on the iTunes classical charts.

Steve Lightspeed should use pirate bay for promotion.

who, who who and who????

I never said you can't be successful without record labels. I said you can't be a super star without record labels.

Get back to me when he sells out a world tour where every stop has 10,000+ seats.

So some freetards play instruments. So what.

That makes up for all those that have their shit stolen? I don't think so.

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That's it. When iget behind my computer Gideon can join Paul on my ignore list. God that guy is an annoying worthless idiot.

yeah it really is the way of the future

forget about youtube with its billions of views.

all the smart musicians are hitting up the pirate bay

He tried to get a record deal but no company he approached showed any interest.

So he really doesn't have that many options but to give the music away for free and hope that some people buy it. Naturally, a lyric style against "the man" is more likely to get the publicity he needs. I'm sure any further releases will be along exactly the same lines.

When talking about his "fanbase" he says "None of that would have been possible without file-sharing" - which is odd because, ummmmm it certainly is possible without filesharing lol.

he do that to gain public, and then he go to world and sell tickets to public

exactly the point

all those artist became number 1 on charts without a massive media push that made them a house hold name

And they didn't have to give the record companies 95% to do it.

How would he have done it with no record label and not giving his content away free on file sharing sites?

and why do you believe that you should have a right to take tool people who are using it legitimately just because other people use for piracy.

It the equivalent of saying that porn should be outlawed completely because some people make kiddie porn.

I never heard a good song of those who offer it for free,they are all crap.

did he make money so far?

95% of zero. Woohoo! You are a total idiot.

You so desperately want to not pay for anything.

I need to go buy some more sunflower seeds. Can't torrent them. Maybe I'll just sneak in and grab them.

Hitting them up with law suits. :2 cents:

1. name one artist who has done that even big names like micheal jackson and the beatles played some smaller venues on their tours.

2. at the current rates taken by the studio and the tour managers/agents zoe keating make more money selling out 1750 seat art theater then she does on a 10k + stadium.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...ck-stars.shtml

unless you are in the top 200 tours ASCAP just takes money from your pocket if you play a larger theater.


so just like the music selling examples

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ing-without-me
77k kickstarter campaign is the equivalent to an established artist selling

1.7 million in record sales.

do an apples to apples comparision (money in your pocket)

You are trying to deflect.

I will say it again.

I never said that an artist can't be successful without a major label. I know for a fact that they can be. In some cases they can make more money selling significantly fewer records on their own than they would if they were on a major label because the label isn't taking most of the profit.

What I said is that you can't be a superstar without being on a major label. If you want to be an indie who makes a few bucks and makes a living and does their own thing, great. These days you can stay out of the major label system. If you want to be U2 or Taylor Swift or Bruce Springsteen or Britney Spears you have to be on a major label because you will need their money, influence and connections to get your name out there on the scale that is needed to reach that level.

That is it. That is all I said.

Posting the song on Youtube... hmm... seems like a good try. "Download from Pirate Bay" - sounds like something that could be against some rules. Many might want to hear the music for free. By the way, Youtube already has lots of videotaped live concerts.

the point is, this artist is willingly giving away his music and is more then welcome to do so...but shouldn't other artists have the right to not have their music given away for free if they choose not to?

sure but why do you believe that those artist should have a right to destroy the service for all the people who want to use it.

We didn't outlaw the VCR because some people daisy chain them together to make boot leg copies (until Sony figured out a way to stop that)

they went after the people who USED the tool to infringe, they didn't outlaw the tool

Why do you believe you have a right to take away the tool from all the people who want to use it.

if those "tools" you're talking about wouldn't willingly participate in copyright infringement, nobody would have a problem with them :2 cents:

That a bald face lie

and you know it


https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7216... t_one_excuse
connect to the link without a torrent client on your machine and see how much copyright material you can get.

VCR could infringe with nothing more than the content sold by the company who made them (sony made both the tape cassettes and the recorders).

The pirate bay has way less direct association to copyright infringement then Sony did way back in the day.

Plenty of artists and groups that have came up and sold out tours without the help of record labels.

For sure. But name me the superstar groups or people that achieved that level of fame (I don't mean selling out theaters I mean 10,000 seat or bigger places) that hasn't been on a major label.

It may have happened in the 60's or maybe even the 70's, but once a few major companies took control of all of the major radio stations artists needed them in order to get the mass appeal and the only real way to get access to them is through the major labels.

A person can have a hit song without a major label, but there is a big difference between having one hit song and being a superstar.

so you saying that the record industry should have a right to destroy the only chance that those independents have because they have a strangle hold on the old media.

If anything that a reason to leave sites like the pirate bay and mega upload alone.

Why can't they just host their own files? The cost of bandwidth is next to nothing and as they become more popular and burn more bandwidth their pockets will also be fat(ter) enough to pay for it. What is the point of using these file sharers like megaupload to host your free music when they could disappear overnight and all your links are then dead?

because mega upload pays you for putting your content on their site

your arguing that an artist should lose that revenue stream and replace it with a cost.

Would you support a 200% tax on your content to give free money to independent artist


mega upload was profitable and the only reason they disappeared is because the government violated the procedures they were supposed to follow.

Per your logic then because they don't publish the music for everyone then it's okay to steal from them ? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I'm sure everyone, including their current visitors, would leave both the pirate bay and mega upload alone if they where not stealing from anyone.

Just look at myspace and be your own judge :wink wink:

How much do you allow the record label companies to make in profits before their work should be pirated and shared amongst thieves and scumbags ?

He paid off his 1st mortgage with 3942 downloads, his car with 382 downloads and his is drinking mojitos all day long now in the Caribbean for 2 downloads per drink.

I never said that.

I simply said if you want to be a superstar like U2 or Taylor Swift you need the help of a major label.

As for The Pirate Bay and Mega Upload being left alone. . . that is another topic that I am not going to debate because it will do nothing but waste time.

seriously moron what about the statement

do you not understand.

This is a clear example of the tool being used LEGALLY

and yet your still attributing the actions of the users to the tool

go back and try and download copyright material from the pirate bay without a torrent client on your machine.

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7216...Not_one_excuse

you can't even infringe without the actions of another completely independent company.

With the vcr you could "infringe" with just the products sold by a Single company.

I think you are missing that the VCR had legitimate uses and Pirate Bay pretty much doesn't. Their business model was designed around a loophole in the copyright law that was in Sweden. They have been successfully prosecuted under the law several times.

How to become a famous DJ thanks to megaupload:

how stupid do you have to be to post that in a thread where an artist is legitimately using that site to promote themselves.


as to being convicted

they were convicted of assisting copyright infringement when the police admitted they didn't know if the pirate bay trackers were involved because they left DHT turned on.

They got rail roaded once.


They have no totally disabled the tracker completely. So if they turn off DHT (limit themselves to only transactions the pirate bay is involved in) now no copyright infringement will happen at all.

http://i.imgur.com/dBHjN.png

number 8, 10,11,12,13,14,15,16

on the best selling hip hop /rap charts


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestselle...music_1_3_last

and number 1 on the Reggae chart

Yes I realize they paid them, but how much? Like $0.001/download? And don't you have to reach 50,000 downloads just to begin getting paid for them? Is it really worth the small amount they make from megaupload when all their links could be dead overnight? Bandwidth is such a small cost, you make it as if they will go broke over $4/mo hosting fees. Not to mention hosting on their own domain such as "punkband.com/newalbum.zip" will allow people to type in "punkband.com" into their browser.

dan bull made an extra 7k a year from mega upload/file lockers

When you use the give it away for free, and if you like it buy it model you can give a shit load of your music away for free.




that the stupidest statement you have ever made

one simple entry in the webhosting plan allows me to redirect

www.mybandname.com/myalbum to what ever mega upload link i want.

Remember the whole pointer thing with files means that if i uploaded my file to mega upload first (something i could easily do if i were the copyright holder) i got credit for the download (because everyone else was a pointer to that file not their uploaded version of the file)

something i could not get if i hosted it myself.

oh and btw if i told you to pay send me a check for what ever your paying on your hosting bill.

Would you do it.

And if you have a problem with me telling you to pay more for no good reason, why do you believe it ok to do it some one else.