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Pirate Bay Launches Free Artists Promotional Page – The Promo Bay

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The major labels may still hate the Pirate Bay, but the controversial site seems determined to find a little love from the indie music, film and art communities. The Pirate Bay announced today that they'll be replacing part of their front page with The Promo Bay – The Pirate Bay Promotional Apparatus".

Musicians, aspriring movie producer, comedians, cartoon artist and others can upload an image, link, add short description and be considered for free promo on the Pirate Bay front page.

"On your site, you must have your songs or movie or whatever available for download, streaming or such, says the Pirate Bay. Please try to sell cd's, shirts or funny hats if you want to, but not only. This is not just about making you rich," according to the Pirate Bay announcemnt.

"Of course, we can and will not release everything we recieve," they continue. "We will pick something every now and then from the pool." Details here.

Would you want to be featured on the Pirate Bay's front page?

Bruce Houghton on 01/16/2012 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (6)
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  2. With all the negative publicity about the Pirate Bay surrounding SOPA/PIPA, this seems like an anticipated defense mechanism. Are they trying to show that PB contains not only copyright-infringing content, but also material that is legally posted by the copyright owners (i.e. indie bands torrenting their own album in hopes of getting exposure)? Sounds A LOT like Napster’s arguments back in 2000 about the legal uses of the p2p network.

  3. @Dean
    Agreed. An attempt to pepper their site with legit content for PR and legal purposes.
    “You should sell hats and other funny stuff cause we don’t pay for your content, we just build a business on it.”
    “This isn’t just about making you rich..”
    Unbelievable.

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