UK ISPs Block Pirate Bay’s Artist Promotions
Found on TorrentFreak on Monday, 03 December 2012
Several UK Internet providers are blocking Pirate Bay’s perfectly legal promotion platform for independent artists. The Promo Bay website is currently being blocked by BT, Virgin Media, BE and possibly several other providers.
The website is entirely dedicated to promoting the work of independent musicians, filmmakers and other content creators.
That's not "fighting piracy", but fighting competition. The entertainment industry always cries wolf when something happens that dares to force them to change their business model, starting with the player pianos. Some might remember the drama when cassette decks got affordable, not to mention the Walkman which would obviously lead to endless copying and the destruction of the music industry. Arguments didn't get much better when music videos were shown on TV, not to mention the VCR lawsuits which took the drama to an entirely new level. When MP3 was developed, the industry again claimed that this would kill their business. Never ever anything happened; in fact, they always made lots of money as soon as they learned to accept the new technologies.