{"id":4048,"date":"2022-03-03T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2022-03-03T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:21:33","slug":"epic-games-is-buying-bandcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2022\/03\/epic-games-is-buying-bandcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games is buying Bandcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnight publisher Epic Games has acquired Bandcamp, the online platform that transformed the independent music business in wonderful ways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The products and services you depend on aren&#8217;t going anywhere, we&#8217;ll continue to build Bandcamp around our artists-first revenue model,&#8221; said Bandcamp co-founder\/CEO Ethan Diamond in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>From The Verge:<\/p>\n<p>Epic describes Bandcamp as committed to &#8220;fair and open platforms,&#8221; a subtle nod to its ongoing fight with mobile storefront operators Apple and Google \u2014 whose payment models it&#8217;s described as a threat as it expands its gaming offerings to a larger social &#8220;metaverse.&#8221; Music has been a key part of that expansion so far, mostly in the form of performances inside Fortnite. Now, the Bandcamp acquisition is giving it a broader foothold in the medium.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2022\/03\/02\/epic-games-is-buying-bandcamp.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnight publisher Epic Games has acquired Bandcamp, the online platform that transformed the independent music business in wonderful ways. &#8220;The products and services you depend on aren&#8217;t going anywhere, we&#8217;ll continue to build Bandcamp around our artists-first revenue model,&#8221; said Bandcamp co-founder\/CEO Ethan Diamond in a statement. From The Verge: Epic describes Bandcamp as committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epic-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}