Oceanship Listening Terms
After years of the majority of the world's self proclaimed music fans holding a gun to the head of the artist and repeating, “Make me an offer better than stealing your music and I'll stop”, streaming was introduced. Soon to become the most popular streaming service was Spotify, founded and run by Daniel Ek of uTorrent (then the world's most popular piracy site).
Streaming is an ultimatum masquerading as a choice. It is — in present form — legal theft. It is a better selection, virus free, more reliable, easy to use, social media version of the same. "It's either this or I steal your music” says the fan —“Bullet #1 or Bullet #2 — your choice.” And just as it was when the musician wanted their music purchased, behind every door to potentially improve streaming (musician control of terms such as eliminate free tiers, windowing, subscription and streaming fees, etc) stands the same fan, gun in hand, repeating: "Not so fast. Make any change to streaming that I don't like, and I go right back to stealing your music through piracy sites, cloud transfers, swapping hard drives, etc".
Below are my terms. If you honour them you can consider yourself a fan of mine and me a fan of yours. If you don't, you cannot. I know these words will read harsh to the vast majority of you, but this how the truth often reads, especially after a lengthy immersion in a lie. Streaming — in present form — isn’t something you ever should have had; nothing you should have been given the opportunity to get used to. Most of us know that near everyone has been paying zero for music since the internet allowed the option to buy it or to steal it anonymously. Most of us know because most of us are this person.
Normally, a supplier would stop supplying their good or service to people who behave as the pseudo-fan has been behaving. However, artists are different. If you stop paying a bank teller you won’t find them at the counter the next day. But if you stop paying an artist, you will find them making art the next day — and every day after that. This is because they are compelled — from within — to create. The majority of the world has been taking advantage of this compulsion for over two decades now. It is inhumane, and it must — at least for the morally developed artist and fan — end.
How to Access Oceanship Music
1. Buy my music through my Website
2. Buy my music on Bandcamp
3. Buy my music on iTunes
4. Stream my music on Youtube and pay $20 USD (or more per album) through PayPal (Google/Youtube make non-participation impossible due to a loophole in the Digital Millennial Copyright Act, which allows fans to upload copyrighted music as they please with no punishment whatsoever. If I remove videos from my official channel, they will simply be uploaded by others).
paypal.me/oceanshipBrad/Oceanship