Pirating my work while misattributing it to tone-deaf impostors and mocking me in the same breath crosses from irritation into contempt. This is the reality of some of the people I am expected to deal with.
Groups like The Orb Remix Group have been recycling my early mixes for decades, orbiting the same juvenilia as if it were a living culture. They hoard covers, brag about their collections, and post photos of covers arranged like trophies. It’s the gamification of memory — music stripped of sound and turned into merchandise nostalgia.
They’ve distributed hundreds of gigabytes of my work and performances for years while diminishing my authorship at every turn. It’s parasitic: they feed on the attention generated by my sound while denying the source. When I confronted it, they didn’t defend themselves — they just blocked me and anyone who knew me who also ‘might’ report them, thereby circumventing facebook reporting tools and resulting in long time fans complaining directly to me about it. Facebook has ignored the reports so far.
Inside their MegaUpload private archives, they circulate “notes” about my work that are completely fabricated. The psychology is obvious. Once a hobbyist accumulates enough followers, they experience the rush of ownership. The illusion of authority. They’ll cling to it harder than to the truth.
If a group exists solely to circulate my music, the group is about me. Pretending otherwise is delusion. The content defines the authorship, no matter what name they attach to it.
The operators of this group tell me they know all about PDA autism because one of them has a kid, missing the point that autism doesn’t present identically in anyone. The group becomes a miniature economy where attention is currency and authorship is expendable. Every repost feeds the admin’s metrics, not the artist’s legacy. The dopamine isn’t from the music — it’s from the numbers, the photo display of decaying plastic trophies destined for the sea. The illusion of relevance built on someone else’s work. An emotional feedback loop of digital parasitism, a system that rewards possession over creation.
Facebook should either ban this group, or transfer ownership to me.
EVIDENCE
