1.8.2006
What goes around comes around
Metro is Sweden's most popular morning paper with over a million daily readers. The newspaper is running an interesting
story about what can happen in music business in the promised land of pirates. The story is about
Wille Crafoord, a popular Swedish musician who in early 90s was founding one of the first hip-hop bands in Sweden, JustD. Later on he has released a number of solo albums with jazz, soul och pop influences, and since 2003 he has been a member in a two-man group Griniga Gamla Gubbar ('Whiny Old Men') which sings rap in Swedish.
Due to his popularity there have been some bootleg recordings made from his gigs, and unsurprisingly some of these bootlegs have found their way to Pirate Bay's generous music offerings. One of the bootlegged songs being distributed on Pirate Bay was 'Bögdisco' - a humorous little song that Wille liked to play on his gigs but never seriously intended to record. However, some Swedish individuals with producing and remixing skills found the song from Pirate Bay and liked it enough to make a good disco version of it. And as it happened, the artist himself liked the pirate version so much that he 'stole it back' from Pirate Bay and is releasing it officially. He also managed to contact the initially unknown contributors, and all parties are happy about the idea of an official release. Wille tells Metro that he found the guys so cool that he might even do more musical co-operation with them in the future.
When asked what Wille thinks about filesharing, he told Metro's reporter that he takes the idea of filesharing very positively, and to prove it, he even started to sing in the telephone a fresh song 'Share files, share files' that he was working on.
