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Unfortunately, I think the time to back up soundcloud was before anyone could have known we needed to backup soundcloud. A lot of my favorite artists that I dis
by mustacheemperor 9y ago
Unfortunately, I think the time to back up soundcloud was before anyone could have known we needed to backup soundcloud. A lot of my favorite artists that I discovered there have a third of their original catalog at best left up because of copyright claims, etc. Who decided free songs by hobbyist artists should be banned even from audibility simply because they contain a fraction of a sample of copyrighted materials?
The most egregious example to me was when Madlib released a remix of a Kanye West song that he had produced and it was taken down for copyright by UMG (a shareholder in Soundcloud). That's when I knew the sun had set on Soundcloud as the open creative community it had started as.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoIndeed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12990346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12990346
- ehnto 9y agoIn a similar vein, soundcloud was a hotspot for DJ mixes (not remixes) for many online hobby DJ communities, but copyright takedowns eventually stopped that as well.
- efdee 9y agoSeems like his void has been filled by Mixcloud now.
- jameskegel 9y agoThis has been mixcloud since day one when soundcloud said they didnt want mixes.
- ipsum2 9y agoWhat's the alternative? Seems like it would take considerable expenses to challenge the copyright claim if Soundcloud refused to take down the song and UMG sued.