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Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn't Get Them Back
- manarth 3y agohttps://archive.is/mWKBz https://archive.is/mWKBz
- projectileboy 3y agoHaha… “streaming services were supposed to end piracy”. Only in ways that they care about. Musicians are dead last on the priority list of streaming services.
- pvaldes 3y agoThis probably hurts, but looking at the bright side, as publicity stunt is as good as gold. The free advertising received by Bad Dog on nytimes is probably more valuable than the expected entire revenue of the CD
- j-kent 3y agoThis article is a bit sensationalized and filled with inaccuracies. > Title: "Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back." - They got them back. Pretty quickly too. > "the name of the company that had uploaded the songs. It was Warner Music, one of the big three labels." - Warner did not upload the music, it was the individual that downloaded the songs from the band's soundcloud. The artists uploaded their songs to Soundcloud. Someone else then took their songs and uploaded them to a distribution aggregator (Level) with different artist name and titles. When they tried to make a CD, the CD printer checked the content and was flagged. They sent takedown notices and got the pirated versions of their songs removed after a couple weeks.
- RecycledEle 3y agoMost of the intellectual property.I created in my life was stolen by corporate criminals. I recently donated a few dozen Canvas LMS shells to the public domain, but I expect some scumbag will lie and copyright them, then I will be told I can not use them.