joeo10,
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If you're using , I would strongly advise getting two external hard drives depending on your size and download your purchased ASAP since the new owners are a marketing B2B company and I know where this is eventually going. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/28/epic-games-is-eliminating-16percent-of-its-workforce-and-selling-bandcamp.html

I would not be surprised if Songtradr is going to push the button on it. https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acquisition/

eklounge,
mike_jones,

@joeo10 @cstross

I always download music I buy from anywhere, because I know that if I don’t I’m really just renting it.

joeo10,
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Here's a nice thread on the saga. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/111143889606615360

joeo10,
@joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

What we really need in the long run is a creator-owned preferably decentralized music platform alternative and I hope there's people out there in the world that is willing to create one.

wjmaggos,
@wjmaggos@liberal.city avatar

@joeo10 @mcc

I'm hoping @funkwhale could be that eventually, but we also need something like a decentralized automatic donation system. how do we organize around making this happen?

cc @ryno

ill_logic,
@ill_logic@mastodon.social avatar

@wjmaggos @joeo10 @mcc @funkwhale @ryno LBRY could have been well positioned here (though I know blockchains aren't popular in these parts) but the SEC destroyed the company and made the legal status of the system unclear.

joeo10,
@joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

"Employees were not included in Epic's sale of . Songtradr purchased the platform's business and operations but not its staff"

Only a matter of time before the button is inevitably pushed. https://www.wired.com/story/epic-games-sale-bandcamp-music-platform-limbo/
https://web.archive.org/web/20231011071725/https://www.wired.com/story/epic-games-sale-bandcamp-music-platform-limbo/
https://archive.li/O7TSd

joeo10, (edited )
@joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Welp, almost 50% of staffers were laid off today. The button push was inevitable as I said. https://nitter.unixfox.eu/modernistwitch/status/1713962311579234428

Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37905638

More reactions:
https://social.lol/@stefan/111245993557957559
https://spaceballs.masto.host/@nedraggett/111245861885056429
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr

It surely didn't take too long for and to say "Fuck the Bandcamp workers for our bottom lines!"

I'm sure @bandcampunited has tons to say about this in due time.

Support them!!

killyourfm,
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@joeo10 @bandcampunited Fuck. I don't know what else to say right now.

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