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.
FYI bandcamp was acquired by Epic and subsequently sold to Songtrader 2023
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?
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.
Thanks for doing so early legwork on this, I might consider using the site once I check these people out.
Tingle@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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?
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
Tingle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thanks for doing so early legwork on this, I might consider using the site once I check these people out.