We’re All The Pirate Bay

from http://thepiratebay.org/special/2009mmtpb.php

The Swedish artist Montt Mardié thought The Pirate Bay needed an theme song, an anthem. So he created one!

We like it a lot and hope you like it too. You can download the torrent here, and watch the video as well.

We also got the audio files so all you TPB fans can make your own version, your own remix!
It would also be cool if you did your own version of the video and post as a video response on youtube. As Montt Mardié put it: “To show the world, that we’re all The Pirate Bay…”

Here’s Monty’s coments about it all:

An artist has got to make a living just like everybody else, there’s no doubt about it. And these are tough times, believe me I know. The thing is though, 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?”.
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.
Times are so strange at the moment and a lot of people are angry and upset. Still, for each day that goes by I get more and more convinced that we shouldn’t try to fight the future, we should embrace it. Try to see opportunities instead of catastrophys.

I’ve written a song. I call it “We’re All The Pirate Bay”. It’s free and nobody will ever have to pay for it, though if you incist you are welcome to make a donation!

Take care, Monty

More Montt Mardié at
www.monttmardie.com
www.myspace.com/monttmardie
www.hybrism.com

Donate: paypal account: monttmardie@hybrism.com

Download, re-mix, re-make, re-download!, re-seed, re-edit, re-enjoy!

Download:
Montt Mardie – We’re all The Pirate Bay (single)
Montt Mardie – We’re all The Pirate Bay (Remixkit!)

Apple and DRM

It’s a well-known fact that Apples iTunes Store sells music crippled with DRM software. This is sad, since the iTunes Store, in my opinion at least, is a great place to discover and purchase music. Agreed, their catalog is not complete, but it is by far the largest and most varied I have found to date. I have bought at least 250 tracks from the iTunes Store, and the first thing I do when my downloads finish is removing the DRM protection. Back in the days, you could do this easily with an application called JHymn. This, unfortunately is not possible anymore, since Apple updated the DRM system, also known as FairPlay. Anyhow, the most obvious method of removing the DRM still works. Just burn the purchased tracks to a CD, and rip them back to your library. In iTunes 7, Apple made this even easier. iTunes now automatically detects that you are importing duplicates, and asks if you want to replace the old files with the one you are importing. One could wonder if the ability to remove DRM this way was left in the software intentionally.

End users who know what DRM is, know that it restricts the fair use of legally purchased content, and I think everyone would rather see it removed altogether. Turns out that Steve Jobs agrees. Such a statement is a powerful open letter to the music industry, but more importantly the end users. If DRM is ever to be abolished, the first step is educating the users about why it is bad. The next step is putting pressure on the music companies, for example through anti-DRM legislation. This can only be done if awareness about DRM is raised in the masses. Hopefully this statement from Jobs will make it to mainstream news, in some form.

If you have no, or little idea about what DRM is, I suggest viewing this humorous introduction to DRM.