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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by wnevets on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:41AM (#37943568)
> For some context, it’s important to understand the degree to which Bandcamp’s success and ubiquity with independent music is built on a people-first, anti-corporate culture.

That is why I'm wondering if the new owner doesn't care about what makes basecamp work and just wants to use all of basecamp data for its "AI" business. Otherwise you're left with another owner who doesn't understand what they bought.

https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/ai-metadata-better-sear...

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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by diggan on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:57AM (#37943781)
> just wants to use all of basecamp data for its "AI" business

Which data specifically? The music itself belongs to the artists and labels, which leaves us with the user activity data, but that must be acquirable much cheaper with larger amount of data elsewhere. Also the data would be tailored to indie/electronic music, rather than applicable to pop music, so the usefulness of even user activity data seems kind of low.

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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by wnevets on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:01AM (#37943847)
> The music itself belongs to the artists and labels,

As if not owning the data has stopped AI companies in the past.

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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by diggan on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:09AM (#37943941)
Exactly! So why would a AI company who want the music itself bother themselves with buying the company first? Just scrape it like everyone else.
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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by wnevets on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:38AM (#37944378)
If you have the kind of cash to throw at a bandcamp purchase its probably easier/faster to buy it than downloading and scaping every album.

Otherwise the new owner doesn't get bandcamp and why so many of its customers like it.

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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by ethanjstark on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:55AM (#37943746)
> another owner who doesn't understand what they bought.

I couldn't imagine who you might be referring to! /snark

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