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Bad Promotion Idea: Yelling At Bloggers For Posting Your Music

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It is a tough quarrel for some people these days. You want to make a living at music, yet people are giving it away for free without your permission. While some people welcome the bloggers posting their tracks away and giving them one of the best forms of organic promotion your band can receive. Then everyone has your music for free? Yes, well here is the qualm!

Bloggers are sharing your music because they are fans, giving to other fans. If you yell at them, or ask to take down your tracks, you now have an angry fan who will now be telling everyone in a public forum how lame you are to sympathetic ears. For example, two years ago in a not so well thought out move, Mark Debiak of Eyeball Records sent out a childish hyperbolic letter to some bloggers - that did contain valid points - but in the end turned him into the Lars Ulrich of the indie world as the masses scoffed at the hyperbole of his mockery of the bloggers practices.

There are better ways to handle this if you object to a blogger posting your music for free. Take it as a compliment and try to realize this is the unfortunate future of promotion. Or you can go around the blogger. Click on all of the links (the song is sometimes linked to numerous file sharing sites) to the file sharing sites the blogger has posted your music. Each of these sites takes copyright infringement very seriously these days, seeing as if they do not respond to take down letters they are able to be held liable in court. Follow the procedures on each site to report copyright infringement and you will have the files taken down promptly. The blogger will assume a fan, competing blogger, that weird web sheriff guy, or a fan reported it. No matter what, the blame will not be placed on you, avoiding a music fan revolt.

Pain in the ass? Yes! A better way to handle this situation compared to looking lame to the music fan masses? OH YEAH! On a side note, if you want to know when blogs are posting your music make sure you Google Alert your band.

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MichaellaS said:

tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!


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