BLACK ERA n'est plus sur Jamendo ! :'(

<br /> <br /> hi. I am blob from black era.<br /> <br /> first of all i would like to thank the Jamendo admins for being the most polite persons we met since we started filesharing, and for the real care they had for us in years. We really respect all<br /> of you.<br /> <br /> i just found this note and i wanna answer to clarify why we left the community.<br /> <br /> the note itself is again another point that shows how much jamendo team cares about music. big respect really.<br /> <br /> I found interesting how jamendo evolved, we tried the pro program and it works, and probably is now a really useful tool to promote label catalogues and bands.<br /> <br /> but we've always  been pushing the idea about "selling an mp3 is selling nothing", it has been our ideology not agaist the idea of selling an mp3,  but against the warfare that sony<br /> started in 1980, buyong dozen of label catalogues to push them using their brand new media (the cd). the beginning of the crisis was introducing the digitalization of audio and disconnecting the<br /> music from the carrier media. you could not think to vinyl and his cut as 2 different entities. subsequentially sony and others introduced the duplication  technology, inoculatong the idea<br /> in music listeners that since the music could be duplicated forever it was worth not a penny. The actual music crisis, in our poor opinion, directy descents from an industrial sony program to<br /> move investments from music to duplication industry, we cant believe they were not aware of this risk introducint duplication and we think it is also tied to the end of their copyright on the<br /> "compact disc" brand. many other industrial entities exploited this dead horse called music to push on the wideband industry. now buying  a cd is like buying an expensive snack in which the<br /> 70% of costs is in advertisment, 29% in the packaging and 1% in food.<br /> <br /> Again, i think that selling mp3, like a self promoting band could do, or like  a small organized agents could  do with little fee, like jamendo does, is a plausible market.<br /> <br /> Its  their right doing it. because each track becomes alive just when people listen it.to be alive music need to be listened. to be listened music needs promotion. usually musicans arent<br /> good promoters of their work, so an idea like jamendo (in digital era) comes welcome.<br /> <br /> for us the real problem is when big companies come in the market, like apple does, eating most of the sales gain, and just giving nothing for dollars. (thats means nothing for nothing, but thats<br /> another history ;)<br /> <br /> so why we left jamendo if we feel right with mp3 sales? just bucause we didnt feel comfortable with the idea of doing it ourselves.<br /> <br /> i may ask sorry for my poor english, thats barely a transalation of naples slang in english words.<br /> <br /> <br /> and i would like to say thanku again to jamendo community and wish to them and honest people like them  the best luck.<br /> <br /> <br /> Big love Blob<br /> <br /> <br />  <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />