Meet BannedMusic.org
p2pnet.net News:- DownhillBattle is at it again.
On the heels of its Grey Tuesday online protest, it’s created BannedMusic.org, a virtual record label for sample-based music the major record labels try to suppress.
Launched today, it features a new, one-click p2p delivery system based on Bram Cohen’s BitTorrent filesharing software.
“To make informed decisions about the direction of copyright law and the future of the music industry, the public needs to hear the music that the current system suppresses,” says Downhill Battle co-founder Nicholas Reville. “BannedMusic.org will make sure that happens.”
DHB’s Rebecca Laurie says the major record labels have made a habit of using copyright law to suppress sample-based works, “But from now on when they issue a legal threat, we’ll make that piece of music more widely available than ever.”
DHB co-founder Holmes Wilson says, “The major labels want to dictate what you’re allowed to listen to. We’re solving this problem by making their strong-arm tactics irrelevant.”
With BannedMusic.org, one group of volunteers will download each new ‘release’ and share it on multiple filesharing networks while a second group will burn copies and mail them to independent radio stations and mainstream media writers focusing on music and music issues.
BannedMusic.org initials offerings include the Grey Album, the Double Black Album by DJ Cheap Cologne, and a mix-CD that tracks the history of the sampling crackdown, courtesy of Illegal-art.org.
