bandcamp acquired by epic games?!

So now everytime i sell/buy an underground music album it seems im directly giving cash to people that helped a genocide? lol

  On 3/3/2022 at 3:47 PM, dcom said:

Americans have some of that, too, and the Brits, maybe throw in all the rest colonialist countries for good measure. Good to know that all capitalism is built on genocide.

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Yeah but buying things on bandcamp didnt give money directly to the american police, the canadian residential schools from the 60s or mining companies.

Now it directly gives money to people that directly collaborate with Uyghurs genocide.

  On 3/3/2022 at 3:48 PM, thefxbip said:

So now everytime i sell/buy an underground music album it seems im directly giving cash to people that helped a genocide? lol

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Although I was being deeply and darkly sarcastic, yeah, in a roundabout way you're feeding the beast (that is capitalism) that has its origin in the exploitation and/or extermination of people.

Capitalism is evil but not every company just DIRECTLY gives out names of people out so they will be detained in concentration camps, knowing thats what will happen, there is a gradation of evil.

Anyway. Im not that naive, i know lots of things we use in everyday are linked to this shit. But its quite depressing, indeed (for me anyway) to know bandcamp is now linked directly to this brand as well.

Yeah I really hope for the best here for the sake of the artists but I will be buying music elsewhere from now on. 

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But in China, Tencent is everywhere. It’s behind the nation’s most popular messaging app, WeChat, with over 1.2 billion monthly active users. It’s the behemoth that created QQ.com, one of the country’s largest web portals and the world’s fourth most visited website. And with Tencent Music, it also owns the majority of China’s music services, with 841 million active users.

It’s also China’s — and the world’s — biggest game company. And with a growing presence internationally, we recently decided to take a closer look at how it operates and what it owns.

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A closer look at Tencent, the world’s biggest game company (Polygon)

  On 3/3/2022 at 6:48 PM, dcom said:

A closer look at Tencent, the world’s biggest game company (Polygon)

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Wow, they have a share of Discord too.  They are literally everywhere, which is pretty scary shit really. 

  On 3/3/2022 at 6:48 PM, dcom said:

A closer look at Tencent, the world’s biggest game company (Polygon)

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wow. china is big. 

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And with Tencent Music, it also owns the majority of China’s music services, with 841 million active users.

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if somehow bandcamp becomes un-banned in china... all my modular farts will become legendary fortnite dancer background music. 

also, wtf tencent owns a lot of shit.  huge company. but seems at odds w/chinese gov't over cultural clamp downs etc. 

Man, the gaming industry is even bigger than i thought.

  On 3/2/2022 at 8:38 PM, thefxbip said:

(Wonder when Zuckenberg is gonna wake up and buy WATMM!!!)

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It is for sale...

Come on Mark.

Dont you want to rule over an army of AFX nerds???

That's how I lost  joyrex.com - a company called MusicFans bought it and was paying me to admin it... then they went bust in the .com boom and I lost the domain that now a squatter is sitting on for way more than I am willing to pay...

  On 3/3/2022 at 8:16 PM, thefxbip said:

Man, the gaming industry is even bigger than i thought.

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The global movie industry is worth about 140 billion USD;  the global gaming market is worth 170 billion USD - projected to be over 300 billion USD in 2026. In contrast, the illicit global drug market is worth 360 billion USD, and the pharmaceutical industry 1.72 trillon USD.

And Tencent (who owns Epic) is the world's largest game company...

Soon gaming, music and movie industry is gonna be only one industry owned by one company. Same with everything else in this shitty world. 

Wonder how much the poetry industry is worth.

LOL

  On 3/3/2022 at 8:57 PM, Joyrex said:

It is for sale...

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  On 3/3/2022 at 9:46 PM, osobjornmedved said:

they could make you play Fortnite to unlock achievements in Bandcamp

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ha lol !

well, time will tell... I, too, hope it will stay fair with artists and users.

bandcapitalism

Bandcramp®

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Concentration Camp 

https://apple.news/AUm4tBMHLRvKy33-n7d7yew
 

Nuanced article about this.

  On 3/3/2022 at 9:05 PM, Joyrex said:

And Tencent (who owns Epic) is the world's largest game company...

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They own 40% of interest in Epic Games