The first thing I did this morning was to welcome our new street team - The Black Cult Eskilstunda - to our clan! Welcome, and thanks for the support! The Black Cult is the official Sparzanza street team, for whom we arrange some special stuff. They are the first to hear unreleased and upcoming stuff, we arrange meet n greets, free tickets and special merchandise!
When I logged in to our Myspace page I noticed that our good friends from Damien has published their new video online. You should really check it out, not only because it’s called “Black Heart” or that the drummer has a very nice t-shirt in the video, but because it’s a great song from a great band.
There has been alot of talk on the news about the new IPRED law which means that record labels and distributors can go to court and get the IP no’s from file sharers, who share copyright controled content, such as music, movies and e-books.
Now, if this law has any success we’ll see, but I personally think that it’s about time that something is done about the problem with illegal sharing and downloading. I used to think that it was pretty good, I thought that the artists that suffered the most really had enough money. But since the Sparzanza album “Banisher Of The Light” which we released on our own label Black Cult Records, I have somewhat changed my mind. Then we really could see how much money we lost because of this. Now, I’m sure that alot of people discovered Sparzanza because of that, and I’m happy for that, but then where are we going to get our money from, both as artist and label? I guess that more people came to our show, and some of them bought our album or some merchandise at the show, but not enough to cover the estimated loss for the illegal downloads.
Some of you might also know that we used a torrent-site to spread the single “Methadream” a while ago, and that is true, we did that. But that was our own choice, to spread that particular song for free to get some attention for the album “In Voodoo Veritas”. And this is what I really do not like; you can not longer decide for yourself if you wan’t to spread your music for free or not! If you choose to do so, it’s really up to you! Spread it everywhere! But if I wanted to keep the control on my own material, then there is no choice, because as soon as the music is released (or even before), someone has posted the material on some torrent site, for everyone to download, and suddenly I have lost control of my own copyright controled music!
Well, what do you readers think about the IPRED law, downloads and such? Speak your mind!!!!
