‘We’re all The Pirate Bay’
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Who’s Montt Mardié, aka David Olof Peter Pagmar, and why should we care?
He’s a Swedish musician who’s achieved instant online notoriety with a song called We’re all The Pirate Bay which is, not surprisingly, being featured by The Pirate Bay.
“Download, post your own video as a reply, re-mix, re-make, re-download!, re-seed, re-edit, re-enjoy!” – says David.
“It’s free and nobody will ever have to pay for it, though if you incist [sic] you are welcome to make a donation!” – he says, also inviting you to vote for another of his songs on Swedish Radio.
On TPB blog, “if I were to go back in time, 10 years or so, and tell the 15-year-old version of myself that over a night, 60,000 people had heard one of my songs, the first question I’d throw back at myself wouldn’t be ‘how much money did I make?’,” has him saying, going on:
“Don’t get me wrong, I love money and I want to make a lot of it. Bathe in it just like Uncle Scrooge. But money isn’t the main reason why I write songs. First and foremost I want people to hear them.”
Principal theme ?
“Don’t write songs to make money …”
Doth he protest too much?
Meanwhile, IMHO, it’s probably just as well he’s only in it for love. 
(Thanks, A_F and Andrew)
May, 2009
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May 17th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Don’t give up your day job David!
May 18th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Its a matter of perspective here, “we’re all the pirate bay” could turn into a rallying cry for file sharing types around the globe!
âDownload, post your own video as a reply, re-mix, re-make, re-download!, re-seed, re-edit, re-enjoy!â – says David”
He gave us enough material to do the edits if you look at it right. And IMHO he aint that bad of an artist, I might actually pay for his music……….someday
May 18th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
@NO1UNO:
I know what you mean, and I love the general idea. But sceptic that I am, I wonder how much of David’s motivation comes from a desire to use this as a way to publicise himself and his music.
Not only but also, be that as it may, and nonetheless, I’d rather see the rallying cry as, simply, ‘We’re all the pirates’.
Cheers!
May 18th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I could picture this getting reviewed by Beavis and Butthead, they had a lot of very obscure videos on that show.
To be honest, even if it is kind of a back door publicity stunt I would rather see more of this than have to gag watching people like Lars and the Metallica crew vigorously fellating the RIAA.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Jon:
What’s so awful about him using this to “publicize his music?”
1. It didn’t cost you a dime.
2. He’s shown his support for a more open and participatory culture.
I really think it’s a GOOD thing for people to use the “new paradigm” to get “noticed”.
Plus, it might get people remixing and doing their own versions and suchlike, and get us away from this damn nonparticipatory “just watch the “professionals” anti-culture we’ve degenerated into.
Same thing with Fanfiction: no matter how crappy it is (and yeah, some of it is truly dismal), at least people are CREATING, and participating in their own culture.
May 20th, 2009 at 8:15 am
@ Henry:
For me, it would have been much more effective (and real) if he’d simply made the song without the dance. He would still have achieved all the exposure he could have hoped for.
Cheers!
May 20th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I’m with Henry on this one, I like this MUCH better than the Lars, McCartney, ect “oh we love our pimp daddies in the RIAA, and we want to see copyright extend forever” attitude. It would not surprise me if one of these people eventually releases some song along the line of “the pirates are stealing all my money”. Cry me a river Paul…