Can I declare hunting season with you n00bstar. After all my name is Digital Darwin, let's see how fast Saskrotch can prance through the meadows as we watch from a distance...

Don't mind me I'm just watching Animal Planet

yea

+one ^

why not just support me instead?
ilkae.bandcamp.com

Dont post on the weekend.

this is not a question to be criticized for.  it's a common occurrence and also the evil flip side of Creative Commons.  Idiots that don't understand the rules think they can grab whatever they want from the internet.  So being sarcastic to this member of the community for asking an intelligent question is just that - pretty stupid.  go back to your "how do I dress up my gameboy" posts.

and also all the idgf posts are pretty unintelligent and fuel the fire for this type of activity - if someone does something with your music that you don't like (and you are still living) - do something about it.  It's fucking wrong to steal music no matter how its made or what time period we live in.  Uploading content and then monetizing it is the same thing as stealing someone's food.

to answer your question:
ask for l00t - make them feel guilty - no answer...  threaten to sue - everyone loves that - even if you don't have the cash on hand!  seems to be the only way to actually motivate people in this country.  To protect yourself you can Trademark your "band" name or legally copyright your songs along side the creative commons license.  This will give you tons of leverage before you even start to take legal action - it will serve as a deterrent.  Anyone stealing music only cares about money - so threatening that way always drives the point home.

Also - for people that say that giving music away for free is stupid.  You are not very intelligent because you wouldn't be making chip music today if kind composers had not freely shared their music and let people look at their source.  Open Source and openness leads directly to increased creativity.  There is a direct scientific correlation.  Where it might not be the best for your pocket, it is amazing to take place in a giant river of freely downloadable chip music.

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n00bstar your do-rag is on a little too tight

this seems like more of an expressed neurosis than a problem

U guys give your music away for free under CC License and when you find it on a non-profit media scare the fuck off? WHY? TELL ME WHY, MIGHTY SHARERS OF THE GIVE-AWAY-FOR-FREE LAND!? WHYYYYYYYYYYY!?

Sincerely,
a guy who was satanized once for claiming copyright over his own songs.

Cry and give up.

So, I was busking with Low Bit Revolte in Cologne in front of the GamesCom. Some people look irritated. Some walk by, flashing a broad grin. Now and then, people stay and look and listen, sometimes in a bunch, they nod their heads, even dance, whip out their fancy smartphones. Shaky vids with crappy sound (signal chain: gameboy->streetcube->air->iPhone-mic) pop up on YT like "GAMEBOY DJs @ GAMESCOM" and so on and the comment sections go like "whoa whats that tune!1!!" and "download it here" and weeks and months later I google myself - narcistic type that I am - and find one of my tunes, properly credited and the CC license quoted, presented as a youtube clip with a rather lazy loopy visual-style video with the name of the song and my artist name flashing, so I jump up and dance around in my room, my heart pounding wildly, chanting "I'm a star now, I'll be famous and have a lot of girlfriends" and then I linked it from my project homepage like "look, I have fans too, just like Justin Bieber" and sometimes, when I feel like all I do is totally worthless, and nobody will ever listen to my stuff (except the people next door when I turn up the volume), I look at that crappy YouTube video, smiling to myself knowing that somewhere out there somebody has been waiting exactly for this sort of thing to be born into the light of the world, then I put on my headphones and keep on tracking.

And if somebody is making money with this and getting rich while I live off bread and water, so be it. There is a universal justice in the world dictating that he will be struck by lightning while taking a dump.

I found this on a post linked on Bandcamp's Audio Basics FAQ: "The single most effective way to stop people from copying your music is to stop making music."

http://newmusicstrategies.com/2008/04/0 … ut-piracy/ <---- for reference

edit: this was back in 2008, geez

edit2: I find it hard to parse the concept of someone using a forward-thinking, sharing-friendly website like bandcamp to distribute their tracks while simultaneously having a problem with their tracks being on youtube, of all places

Put it on here and we'll fry them.