Does BuckCherry Think The BitTorrent Community is Stupid?
Written by enigmax on July 22, 2008Some artists, bands and labels claim that their lives are ruined by their material being available on P2P networks. BuckCherry are complaining that a track from their latest album has leaked to BitTorrent. How do they complain? Via an Atlantic Records press release. I smell a rather large free-publicity rat.
Leaks of pre-release material onto the Internet are pretty normal events these days. Even the mainstream media are happy to cover the big leaks, usually while portraying file-sharers as the son of the devil. In the past many file-sharing news sites have covered such leaks of movies and music as a matter of course, but as they become more prevalent, less people report on them.
Normally the approaches of the mainstream (and the bands, artist and labels) and that of the file-sharing community are pretty much opposite. On the one hand piracy is killing everything it touches. On the other hand, the file-sharing hand, it’s something totally different - free promotion and all-important publicity for the artists.
Our regular readers will know that the relatively unknown Indiana Gregg did rather well from her recent experiences with piracy, thanks largely to The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak and dozens of other sites. And she’s not on her own, many other artists have benefited from piracy.
Some of these people are openly happy with their ‘piracy’ successes, others complain like crazy. Interestingly (and this is an opinion piece so feel free to disagree) we now appear to have a third type of piracy complainer - the complain-like-crazy-but-secretly-love-it type.
Enter ‘BuckCherry‘. I haven’t been (un)fortunate enough to hear anything from them but according to Wikipedia they are a hard/alternative rock band. They claim to be pretty mad that a track entitled “Too Drunk…” from their latest album “Black Butterfly” has started cropping up on BitTorrent sites, way in advance of its September 15th release date. This is what the band has to say:
“Too Drunk…,” a featured track from “BLACK BUTTERFLY,” recently appeared online at a number of BitTorrent sites. Buckcherry has released an official statement regarding the song’s unscheduled arrival, declaring, “Honestly, we hate it when this s*** happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first.”
There is an old saying, “Least said, soonest mended“, but clearly BuckCherry have never heard of this saying or the concept, since they didn’t just comment casually on the leak, but shouted it from the rooftops in a fully-blown Atlantic Records press release. They mention the leak in the opening paragraph:
Buckcherry Reveals “BLACK BUTTERFLY”; Platinum-Certified Hard Rockers Announce New Album as “Too Drunk…” Appears Online;
…and then go on to mention the actual network (BitTorrent) in the second paragraph detailed above, which is not a particularly smart move if you’re trying to dissuade file-sharers from the inevitable free download. Adding further fuel to the already smoldering pile of suspicion is the fact that it’s possible for fans who preorder to get the “Too Drunk…” track for free.
I may be completely wrong in coming to the conclusion that BuckCherry has (cleverly?) manipulated 30 million world-wide file sharers into sampling their work through their faux displeasure in this press release. I may be wrong that Indiana Gregg is quietly enjoying all the extra publicity afforded to her by piracy.
But of course, the BitTorrent community wouldn’t fall for such a cynical publicity attempt and the file-sharing press wouldn’t fall for it either, we’re not that stupid.
Hmmmm….
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Indeed. To be fair, many of the artists who complain about piracy probably don’t really understand how it helps them. Others may be against it simply because they feel like they don’t have any control over their work (which can be scary).
All we as pirates can do is make sure we do pay for what we like. If you really got into, say, Delerium’s Karma album, buy it. Feel good in that not only did you pay the artist, but you also helped them by spreading the word through BitTorrent.
the song aint that good..
Whateva, they should stop B*tching.
Record companies doing this and blaming our @ss.
How the F*ck we get their album from their studio even that album not released.
It means, someone who works in their studio stole that song and selling and one pirate boy bought that song & released it.
Record companies should fix their security holes before blaming Pirates.
RECORD COMPANIES SHOULD f**k off ! !
Ever notice how the #1 complainers of piracy happen to be some of the least listened to music in the world?? This slut indiana Gregg, Michael Jackson, the VILLAGE PEOPLE!
Heres a concept: maybe people don’t listen to your music because you suck… period… not because we’ve taken to the keenness of screwing artists in all departments.
Who the hell are BuckCherry?
Don’t tell me, I don’t care.
Yeah - what he said…
I agree with “audacitor”. I even bought an Indie band’s merchandise. As a consumer, i should know, as much as possible about the product. We should be proud owners, not mindless spenders or feel stupid and cheated.
@4
Word!
BuckCherry? Too drunk? I wouldn’t waste my ratio on this. Go complain to the noobs at youtube or something you EMO losers.
Couldnt have put it any better myself, well done #4 (Bob Dole)
This band aint no good. fucking retards
Never heard of them. tards.
They are doing an “Indiana Gregg”.
How very original
or not.
;)
Please, oh please, oh please send a complaint to tpb that would make my day.
What’s with the names of these people? Buck Cherry, Indiana Whoever - they rip off other people’s names and complain about being ripped off? Makes no sense. Has the music world run out of original names?
Anyhow, memo to B. Cherry: If your stuff is not being shared, you are not popular, you are a loser. Only winners get shared. If your stuff is not shared, then you would not sell as many albums as you’re selling now. Case in point, I’ve never heard of B. Cherry before. So I wouldn’t buy your album. (I wouldn’t download it, either, but there you go.) If people download your album, at least they hear it. That’s better than everyone being like me and not knowing who you are.
bastards; if they took a positive approach to this I maybe would have listened, but they were asholes about it, screw them!
lol.. its on youtube, and I personaly dont like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qplBVqPhbBY
It had to be done by SOMEBODY who worked in the studio. you can’t just waltz into a studio and take the song, so it has to be an employee who leaked it. DUH!
who is BuckCherry?
BuckCherry? What? I bet they suck big time anyways, LOL.
I’ve heard that they uploaded it themselfs just to see if this new way of putting stuff out there works. and the video for the song is crappy becuz people demanded it/cuz they wanted a video quickly. great band btw
Haven’t heard of this band, but ill check it out
Based on the youtube vid it’s utter crap…
J.
So, if you suspect they are nefarious in their intent, then you should counter this by completely ignoring such press releases!
Torrents are for no0obz. FUUCK OFF!
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