Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back.
www.nytimes.com
Bad Dog, a group from D.C., was forced to take a crash course in streaming fraud, a shadowy realm that costs musicians $2 billion a year.

IP lawyers record a little album and can’t get it printed on CD because it’s already been uploaded to Spotify et al. after being stolen from their SoundCloud.

Criminals have scaled the theft, redistribution, and fraudulent streaming via stolen accounts to generate royalties.

  • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social
    26·
    11 months ago

    This is actually way more common than people think. Lotta people think in order to upload music to streaming you need some label connection. Not the case. Just find a distributor like Symphonic, upload and wait for streams. Hope these guys can get their recumpence.

    • The BartoEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      Yeah you just gotta be the first to get the tracks into the system. When I uploaded some of my music to the system it was kinda weird how easy it was.