The Overdub Tampering Committee Speak out
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008We love this at Label:Life, if it’s true that it is.
Over the last three years the TOTC claim that they have been downloading various newly released music, overdubbing new parts to the track in various guises such as news instruments and additional production techniques AND then re-seeding them back to the torrent sites as the same track.
They even claim that these modified tunes have found there way onto radio stations as well as millions of peoples music collections. Their manifesto states that they dislike the the majors pretty much as everyone else does in the online world…
Attempting to police and punish “illegal downloaders” with lawsuits and fines is misguided and, in our opinion, a waste of time. This model treats the music fans as criminals. That’s an insane business model. But we expect nothing less than insanity from large, crumbling corporations. We do not know how the music industry will change in the next few years and we don’t know how a method will arise to ensure that musicians are properly paid for their recorded work. We have no solutions.
While we think that this is quite possibly a hoax, it’s a fantastic one.
As soon as one thinks about it, a nagging feeling in the back of your mind makes you doubt any tunes that you may have downloaded in the last three years…
Real or not, they could be onto something here… I’m sure some enterprising company could scour the p2p networks and torrent sites for newly released/pre-released music, download them, slap an advert in their somewhere and re-upload…