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Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform (arstechnica.com)
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[-] udon@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 weeks ago

on average, i'm earning 3x as much from bandcamp FLAC sales compared to what i earn off streaming. Hasn't been ruined so far.

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Shit, that I didn't know about 😭

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

Were sold by epicc to some other company.
Still doing their regular job and not went to shit.

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 3 weeks ago

I don't bought a lot of music, but all the independent musicians I follow have a bandcamp store. They also sell merch there.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't noticed any change since they've been bought up. The new owners did bust up an attempt at unionizing, though, so there's that.

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