battleop
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It appears that both Torrent Freak and BBR have fallen for this. I am sure that BuckCherry and their management appreciate the free publicity. |
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| said by battleop  :It appears that both Torrent Freak and BBR have fallen for this. I am sure that BuckCherry and their management appreciate the free publicity. Do you have information to the contrary or are you just not buying it?
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX | reply to battleop
It may be free publicity, but does hearing about this little stunt make you want to buy their albums? |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Me, personally? No, but if I were a fan of BuckCherry I might. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to funchords
It's a publicity stunt. As long as people cover this stuff record companies and bands will do it. If they stop covering it they won't do it. It's free advertising. |
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What needs to happen here with them is a kind of reverse
Streisand Effect. Instead of something that someone wanting
to ban gets more widespread, coverage of their cheap
publicity stunt ought to completely disappear from the Web.
This means torrents, too. 0 seeds and 0 peers and no
web coverage, and everyone will either ignore them or
say "Buckcherry who?"
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james
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So, if a band you liked, released a press statement that they were mad at pirates, and was stupid enough to say that those downloading the song weren't their "fans", that would make you want to buy the new album more?
If any band I liked did that crap, I would make sure they never saw a penny of mine until they did something I approved of to make up for it.
Yeah, I'm only one person, but if enough people stop buying things in response to publicity stunts, or better yet spend even less in response to them, they will stop doing them. |
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| said by james :So, if a band you liked, released a press statement that they were mad at pirates, and was stupid enough to say that those downloading the song weren't their "fans", that would make you want to buy the new album more? If any band I liked did that crap, I would make sure they never saw a penny of mine until they did something I approved of to make up for it. Yeah, I'm only one person, but if enough people stop buying things in response to publicity stunts, or better yet spend even less in response to them, they will stop doing them. A band I liked once did that. I no longer listen to them and I helped them to lose sales - I sold my collection of their CDs to a used CD shop. You might have heard of them, they go by Metallica. |
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said by battleop :It appears that both Torrent Freak and BBR have fallen for this. I am sure that BuckCherry and their management appreciate the free publicity. Fallen for what, broadband/tech related news?
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Nope, the publicity stunt. |
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james
join:2001-02-26
antarctica | reply to dentman42
I 2nd that, they pissed me off so much that I can barely stand to listen to them even for free. |
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yzor
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Jacksonville, FL | I 3rd that, no longer buy or listen to them If I can help it. Its sad, but I am voting with my wallet. |
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