Fake Merch ads

[Running Rebel]

I have seen a few fake ads on FB selling Neil Tribute shirts with obvious copyright infringement bullshit. FB says you can’t report copyright/trademark infringement and you have to get the owner to do it. Ignore that. Report it anyway as malicious/fake and FB actually reported to me they removed them. One as “Rush Lovers” and “Rush Fans”.

[Syrinx]

I was going to say that a lot of people are trying to cash in on Neil's death. I haven't seen so much Neil memorabilia on Ebay in a long time.

[Tim091]

And get this disgusting video removed from YT:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elxESXefpIE

 

I have reported it twice and my conversations with the vile piece of lowlife who runs the channel makes me mad that he actually seems to be enjoying told he is lowlife and is bringing misery to people.

[Fordgalaxy]

Death and sales go hand in hand.

[Tim091]

Death and sales go hand in hand.

 

Sadly, you are so right.

 

I'd say to these people imagine it was your mother, would you do this? You know, they would probably say yes, not because they really thought about it but because they have no mechanism for really thinking about it.

[blueschica]

I have seen a few fake ads on FB selling Neil Tribute shirts with obvious copyright infringement bullshit. FB says you can’t report copyright/trademark infringement and you have to get the owner to do it. Ignore that. Report it anyway as malicious/fake and FB actually reported to me they removed them. One as “Rush Lovers” and “Rush Fans”.

They're horrible! A friend reported one where they make it look like a celebrity is holding a t shirt. They had a photo of Geddy looking like he was holding an RIP t shirt. :( :( :(

[lerxt1990]

I have seen a few fake ads on FB selling Neil Tribute shirts with obvious copyright infringement bullshit. FB says you can’t report copyright/trademark infringement and you have to get the owner to do it. Ignore that. Report it anyway as malicious/fake and FB actually reported to me they removed them. One as “Rush Lovers” and “Rush Fans”.

 

Hear hear. I did that. The Rush Fans one was one of them. The cashing in is bad enough, the fake photoshopped photos of Geddy and Alex holding their merch is utter BS. Takes two seconds to report - just do it.

[lerxt1990]

I have seen a few fake ads on FB selling Neil Tribute shirts with obvious copyright infringement bullshit. FB says you can’t report copyright/trademark infringement and you have to get the owner to do it. Ignore that. Report it anyway as malicious/fake and FB actually reported to me they removed them. One as “Rush Lovers” and “Rush Fans”.

They're horrible! A friend reported one where they make it look like a celebrity is holding a t shirt. They had a photo of Geddy looking like he was holding an RIP t shirt. :( :( :(

 

I saw a Geddy and Alex one. Obscene.

[blueschica]

I have seen a few fake ads on FB selling Neil Tribute shirts with obvious copyright infringement bullshit. FB says you can’t report copyright/trademark infringement and you have to get the owner to do it. Ignore that. Report it anyway as malicious/fake and FB actually reported to me they removed them. One as “Rush Lovers” and “Rush Fans”.

They're horrible! A friend reported one where they make it look like a celebrity is holding a t shirt. They had a photo of Geddy looking like he was holding an RIP t shirt. :( :( :(

 

I saw a Geddy and Alex one. Obscene.

:( :(

[Syrinx]

I hope they do an official tribute shirt with money going to cancer research or another of Neil's interests. I would love to wear a shirt proudly, but refuse to pay someone who is cashing in on his death.

[Hear Again]

I have been hash tagging Anthem every time I see one. " Vultures... #AnthemEntertainment"

[ytserush]

I have been hash tagging Anthem every time I see one. " Vultures... #AnthemEntertainment"

 

Anthem isn't Anthem. They're Ole's Anthem. Not sure if they care. Does the "band" still retain an attorney?

[taurus]

Death and sales go hand in hand.

 

https://ultimateclas...sic-sales-2020/

 

Sales of Rush’s music soared by more than 2,000 percent in the aftermath of drummer Neil Peart’s death, Billboard reported, adding that mainstream chart returns were expected in the upcoming accounting period.

Peart died on Jan. 7 after a three-year cancer battle, but the news wasn’t announced until Jan. 10. Over the period Jan. 10-13, on-demand streaming of songs increased to 24.5 million, up from 2.8 million over the previous four-day period. Sales topped 19,000 compared to 1,000, with album sales increasing 1,820 percent to 6,000.

 

The band’s 1981 classic “Tom Sawyer” was the most-streamed song during the period, with 2.8 million listens, compared to 698,000 previously. The total surge in streaming was 776 percent. “It’s expected that Rush’s songs and albums will impact next week’s Billboard charts (dated Jan. 25), including a likely re-entry on the Billboard 200 chart from the act’s best-of collection The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974 – 1987,” the

report said.

Meanwhile, Rush songs filled 23 of the 25 top positions on the LyricFind Global chart and 18 of 25 on the LyricFind U.S. chart. Billboard said the stats are compiled from search queries on Amazon, Pandora, Deezer and other outlets offering licensed lyrics. Once again, “Tom Sawyer” was the most popular song, No. 1 in the global chart, followed by “Limelight,” “The Trees,” “The Temples of Syrinx,” “Losing It” and “The Garden,” coming in at 2-6 respectively. “Afterimage” was at No. 8 and “Closer to the Heart” No. 10; every song through to No. 25 was also by Rush.

Peart became Rush’s main lyricist when he joined the band in time for their second album in 1974. “Though [Geddy] Lee had written the lyrics on the group's first album with [original drummer John] Rutsey, he happily ceded the role to Peart, whose songwriting focus was heavily influenced by his studies of objectivist Ayn Rand while he had lived in England,” Billboard noted. “Peart's drumming style, both manic and intricate, would also help come to define the band's virtuosic prog-rock sound. … Today, Peart is simply considered one of the best drummers in rock history.”

Edited January 19, 2020 by taurus

[lerxt1990]

I'm hoping everyone just reports the ad. Selling things is not unusual, or frankly unfair or bad as far as I am concerned (although lots of copyright infringement is going on) but photoshopping the remaining members of the band is in bad taste - same bad taste as other shit they will knock off of social media.

[JARG]

Death and sales go hand in hand.

 

[cynical mode]

Yup. Lots of people know that when a celebrity dies there's lots of interest in that celebrity. What better way to increase your own self-promotion than by taking advantage of the celebrity's death? The explosion of "Neil Peart reaction" videos on youtube is proof enough.

[/cynical mode]

Edited January 24, 2020 by JARG