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

submitted 9 months ago by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

In the late 1990s and early aughts, millions of fans routinely downloaded songs from online peer-to-peer file services without paying a penny, a fiasco that cost the industry a fortune.

I guess in potential lost pennies, peer to peer sorta means they wouldn't be involved in hosting the files and paying for bandwidth.