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Pirate Bay Promotion 'Promo Bay' Attracts 5000+ Artists, Sticks It To RIAA and MPAA

Ok, what does the music community want. It's quite evident that not everyone wants the same thing. While there is only a small percentage that supports piracy, there is still that element out there. While we do not support this group, we still have to acknowledge their presence. Our responsibility at AMP is for the the majority of the music creative community. We are now and have always lobbied for personal creative property rights.

It's very apparent this small community is driven by ego and greed and lack of respect for their peers. Learn who they are and let them know your stance. We all owe that to our peers. Help stamp out piracy. Come join us at AMP as we fight for the Arts!

Listen to the gobbledegook below and decide 

While movie studios and record labels would have you think that torrents are a threat to the movie and music industries, thousands of independent artists heartily disagree. That's why more than 5,000 musicians, actors, writers, filmmakers and artists have signed up to be promoted by The Pirate Bay, the world's largest torrent site, based out of Sweden.

• Earlier this year, shortly after the Internet thought it had claimed victory over censorship bills like SOPA and PIPA, theFBI began shutting down file-sharing sites, including one of the world's biggest in MegaUpload. To avoid being shut down, The Pirate Bay was forced to switch from the ".org" domain to the Swedish domain ".se," since U.S. law enforcement agencies can seize U.S.-owned domain names, but the company also wanted to combat a negative image.In turn, The Pirate Bay introduced anew promotion platform for artists called "The Promo Bay," which let independent artists reach tens of millions of people by offering favorable advertising spots on the The Pirate Bay's home page.

The response to The Pirate Bay's promotion platform has been overwhelming: the company has already received more than 5,000 applications from artists; 90 percent of all submissions have apparently come from musicians, and 95 percent of those musicians are male.

"Thus far we've done 14 regular campaigns in three countries each and eight worldwide promotions," said "Winston" from The Pirate Bay, in aninterview with TorrentFreak. "When we started the project the plan was to do a few worldwide promotions a year, but the submissions have been too good. So now we're gonna do the worldwide promos every weekend and some regulars every now and then."

So far, The Pirate Bay's promos have been very successful for the featured artists. George Barnett, who was one of the first featured artists on The Promo Bay, said the boost from The Pirate Bay helped him add 4,000 new Facebook fans and 85,000 new views on his video. Filmmaker Tomas Vergara got a healthy boost from The Promo Bay, with his short film "The Chase" earning more than 250,000 views in three days.

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