March 2, 2022: Bandcamp puts out a press release about their ājoiningā Epic Games. This follows in a line of eerily similar acquisitions of companies catering to indies, namely Sketchfab and ArtStation.
There are lots of interesting topics intersectingĀ here:
- Venture capital and the associated perverseĀ incentives
- Antitrust and general issues with corporateĀ consolidations
- The takeover of existing institutions, especially technicalĀ infrastructure
- The false narrative of corporations as indie andĀ non-corporate
- Epic vs Apple and problems of platformĀ monopoly
- Bandcampās correct but rare approach to piracy, which isĀ endangered
Iāll talk more about those some day, donāt worry. For now, though, have someĀ tweets.
Wed Mar 02 18:04:16 +0000 2022the problem with making a good website is that sooner or later someone will offer you an un-refusable amount of money to ruin it twitter.com/Bandcamp/statuā¦