Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  FYI bandcamp was acquired by Epic and subsequently sold to Songtrader 2023

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  • Tingle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Really it was re-sold I actually didn’t know that.

    I don’t know much about Songtradr, all I can find is that they let half the bandcamp staff go when they took over, is it a well known company?

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    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Its an Australian company founded by this guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wiltshire and this guy www.songtradr.com/helge

      Songtradr is a fairly boring ecommerce platform for music from what I can read. Boring is good though, I don’t see any dramas / issues in my brief web traipsing.

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      • Tingle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thanks for doing so early legwork on this, I might consider using the site once I check these people out.

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