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Jared Bowser, local musician (and pirate) In Playboy.

Jared Bowser, who, with Jonathan Berlin, is the local band Sunbears is featured in this month's issue of Playboy Magazine on account of piracy. Well kind of. Jared, who deejays at Club Tsi (clubtsi.com) when not traveling with his on-the-verge band was a central player in the epic fail controversy surrounding his uploading of an advance copy of Ryan Adams unreleased album: "Jacksonville City Nights".

Published May 29, 2009 in Culture      Digg Digg   Share this article on Facebook Share on Facebook   twitterTweet this!   Open printer friendly version of this article Print Article

While Bowser is a self described fan of Ryan Adams, this didn't keep the fan base from massively downloading the album (at no charge) before Adams could release it to retail outlets first.

The resulting Lawsuit: The United States of America vs. Jared Bowser was a landmark ruling (against Jared) in digital and intellectual rights.

For his trouble, Bowser was confined to house arrest and left with fairly impressive attorney bills.

But that hasn't kept the talented vocalist from developing his work with Berlin in Sunbears.

Now that house arrest is over, it has to be easier to tour, which he did recently with Berlin and Clayto (his DJ Partner at Steamworks in Five Points and TSI downtown) as they traveled with Mates of State and Jacksonville's own Black Kids.
http://www.myspace.com/sunbears

If his band hits the bigtime, its interesting that Jared's own intellectual property will be protected by the case that he lost.







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» 12 Comments

stephendare

May 29, 2009, 02:36:22 PM

Wonder how it felt to be interviewed by Playboy at 22?

77danj7

May 29, 2009, 03:55:32 PM

That's my cousin....bahaha

stephendare

May 29, 2009, 04:09:42 PM

No kidding Dan?

Thats hilarious.

77danj7

May 29, 2009, 04:11:53 PM

yup...It was definitely a trying time for the whole family when this was going on.  We are just all glad it all turned out better than it could have.

stephendare

May 29, 2009, 04:57:19 PM

Yeah no doubt.  I like Jared a lot, btw.  Very talented guy!

stephendare

May 30, 2009, 05:20:16 PM

My little sister and I went out to Steamworks after the Brian Hicks benefit at Flux gallery last night and saw the young mr Bowser there.

Fairly hip night.

Jason

June 01, 2009, 09:57:26 AM

Were the interviewers Playboy Bunnies?

stephendare

June 01, 2009, 01:18:45 PM

Nope.  Just the average interviewer type.

I will ask Jared about the experience though.

stug

June 01, 2009, 01:19:41 PM

Is this in the May or June issue?

stephendare

June 01, 2009, 01:58:04 PM

I think its the June Issue, but it comes out in May...

Omarvelous09

June 08, 2009, 04:22:21 PM

Ohhh JareBear...lol.

stephendare

September 08, 2009, 11:58:57 AM



Jared and fellow sunbearsian Jonathan Grant Berlin are on the cover of Folio this week.
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