Thread: Blink-182 Rewards Pirating Fans

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We’ve said it a few times before; pirates are the biggest music fans, and buy
more music than ‘legitimate’ consumers.

Luckily there are some artists that get this.



Blink-182 has risen from the dead recently, and the band seems to understand
that their fans shouldn’t be treated like thieves.

Instead, they used several unauthorized fan clips that appeared on YouTube to
make a clip for their latest single.

“To launch our first single in eight years, AT&T helped us search YouTube
for every instance of fans using our music without our permission. And then we
rewarded them for it. This film is made out of clips from all those videos.
Thanks for being a fan,” they write.

Epic Video and an Epic song. I love it - b-182 is always doing awesome shit. I am so fucking glad they are back. Pardon my french.

I love Blink-182. I have followed them since high school. "All the small things" is still my favorite song by them. I hope they make those songs with the simple messages that yielded them hits in the early 00's. I haven't heard much of them in a while...

Great news!
I hope this phenomenon spreads and more artists face the truth or become 'enlightened' instead of treating their 'illegitimate' consumers as shit. Many people find out about bands and artists they never knew about through youtube and p2p filesharing. You try it, listen to it and decide to support them, some of them will threaten you with lawsuits or let you go if you pay a ridiculous fine, others will be grateful of a new fan and supporter who can share his/her experience even further. Besides, it's good marketing and doesn't cost you anything.

blink-182 used to be one of my favorite bands, didn't know they supported music piracy lol, glad they're still around as well