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Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 18 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Are Bandcamp still the good guys? I thought they were bought by the big capital and now went down the drain. Artists' opinions especially welcome

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    People expected them to get fucked after the acquisition, though the new owners are just going "you keep doing what you're doing, not gonna change a thing, just give us a cut of your profits"

    Touch wood, it's gonna stay that way.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    They fucked the union, though.

    The massive layoff that gutted Oakland-based music service Bandcamp hit one group at the company particularly hard: leaders of its nascent union.

    As of Monday, Bandcamp has been sold by video game juggernaut Epic Games to Songtradr, a music licensing firm. The acquisition closed with just half of Bandcamp’s employees offered jobs at the Santa Monica-based company.

    The job cuts, which SFGATE reported Monday amounted to about 60 of 118 employees, disproportionately hit union leaders, Bandcamp United told SFGATE in a Tuesday press release. Every member of the union’s eight-person bargaining team was laid off, it said, and in sum, 40 of the bargaining unit’s 67 people lost their jobs.

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