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Yes, I hope so, because fraud is a huge issue with Spotify. An older acquaintance of mine is a professional musician living in Nashville doing commissions. He
by beckler 7y ago
Yes, I hope so, because fraud is a huge issue with Spotify.
An older acquaintance of mine is a professional musician living in Nashville doing commissions.
He made a track for a trailer of a video game, but chose not to publish it on Spotify (for reasons I don't know). One of the fans ripped the song from the trailer, uploaded it to Spotify, and was collecting all the royalties.
Even though Spotify keeps taking it down, someone else uploads it again, ad nauseam.
- anoncake 7y agoSounds fair. He didn't want the money of Spotify's customers so someone else took it.
- snowwolf 7y agoYeah, the uploading of copyright infringing content is one aspect, but I was also wondering about just uploading rubbish and somehow generating fake listens or tricking real users into listening to your track (game the ranking algorithms to get it into recommended playlists) to get royalties. Something like the Amazon ebook scams: https://www.zdnet.com/article/exclusive-inside-a-million-dollar-amazon-kindle-catfishing-scam/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/exclusive-inside-a-million-dol... https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/amazon-book-stuffing-authors-scam-chance-carter-romance-kindle-unlimited.html https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/amazon-book-stuffing-author...