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Bandcamp is a group enterprise which is constructed out of the work of around 60 people or so.

None of those employees actually *own* the enterprise though, the enterprise's ownership is abstracted away from membership of the group of people that make Bandcamp work.

Which means the owners, without consulting with the members of the group, can sell the group to other owners.

And that is indeed what has happened.

The new owners of the group are likely to insist that the members of the group enshitify their service and impoverish themselves and their customers.

This is capitalism: The abstraction of the ownership and control of a group enterprise to make it separate from membership of the group itself.

The boss's bosses ain't in the group, and they don't care about the mission or the music or the bands.

They only care about return on investment.

The only way to prevent capital from selling out your group enterprise is to never let capital own the group enterprise in the first place.

Try to work for co-ops, and if you are a worker or musician at Bandcamp, maybe just quit and start something that isn't owned by money.

cnbc.com/2023/09/28/epic-games

CNBC · Epic Games is eliminating 16% of its workforce and selling BandcampBy Ashley Capoot
Wayne Myers
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@pre "Mad" is a terribly polite way of putting it.

Adam Dalliance
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@conniptions I'm sure you already know that the only cannon copy of your music should be on your own hard-drive. Your only copy isn't there on their servers.

Hope the buy-out turns out good for you and everyone, but then not much of what I hope for actually happens.

fluffy 💜
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@conniptions @pre Which is to say, Blamscamp is a really nice thing, but it doesn't handle any encoding or tagging, and pyBlamscamp exists to make that easier (as well as the process for actually provisioning the album onto itch.io).

I really should have given it a different name.

Wayne Myers
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@fluffy @pre Thank you for the clarification and further details! I was indeed a bit confused (my usual state, tbf)

fluffy 💜
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@conniptions @pre I think my thinking in the moment was that I was forking blamscamp to give it an alternate set of functionality that I felt was missing from the original. That still doesn't justify not renaming it though.

Wayne Myers
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@fluffy @pre Very much understood. See also 'staring hard' etc :)

blackle mori
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@fluffy @conniptions @pre you renaming it was totally justified imo, it's pretty common to change the name of something when you port it to another language. iirc I licensed everything as cc0 for this reason, I want the code to be used!

blackle mori
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@fluffy @conniptions @pre wait you said *not* renaming it. tbh I feel like adding "py" at the start is sufficient

Alison Wilder
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@pre @conniptions it's time for a fedified #bandcamp clone.

maloki 🍍:ghostbat:
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@pre i wish the workers got together and bought it to be honest.

Adam Dalliance
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@maloki wouldn't that be nice.