PSA: If you have music on Spotify, your music was likely stolen and uploaded to this NFT website
Posted Feb 2, 2022, 12:04 AM UTC
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Wait, is someone actually releasing music?
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A relevant comment from the original thread:
This isn't in any defense whatsoever, just wanna clarify. They're not uploading any music. You can't play any albums or tracks on their site. They're uploading album/song artwork and Spotify profile pictures. They also have text listing artist names, albums, and songs.
If hitpiece was a physical store instead of a website:
- they'd have all artwork on display
- They'd say you can pick a song to own
- You'd pay to buy a song
- Then they'd give you a piece of paper with a bunch of numbers on it.
- Saying that's the number for the song, it's unique and only available in their store, and no one else can buy that song (number) in their store.
- Oh, and the machine that generates the number decimates the environment.
All NFTs are scams
TL;DR They are selling numbers while you are looking at album covers.
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sounds so fraudulent and like their still selling and IP that they don’t have the license or authority to sell. hope they go down and have to sell all their assets to settle a class action lol
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This should be stickied in this sub for a week.
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Agreed haha this is insane. I'm waiting to see this on the news.
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Yeah, my old band's stuff is up there.
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Why am I worried about this again? My stuff has been scraped and added to catalogs without consent for years, no one is making any money out of it, especially not me.
I mean, it's not like they are a willing megaphone for antivaxxer bullshit or anything.
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One of the creators actually is an antivaxxer. Because of course.
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LOL of course! This shit is just impenetrable!
My band is on it but we have ended up on heaps of other stuff that looks just the same to me.
I just released a solo album and I am slightly offended they haven't added that as well...
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Their website is just a front-end for Spotify's database. Searches on their site just go straight to Spotify and the names, cover art &c. are all from Spotify, so if your music isn't on Spotify, you won't be able to find it there.
(Just a quick reminder of the most important comment, your music is not actually on this scam site at all. They're just displaying the name and cover art so that people will buy a token "of" that track. The token doesn't have anything to do with the music itself.)
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Wow! So they aren't stealing anything, they're just selling an NFT for that URL to Spotify. I'm pretty sure that's entirely legal, but really bizarre. I'd be more mad at the idiot buying an NFT for a Spotify URL. Makes no sense.
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Seems like they've disabled the search feature now, at the moment the landing page doesn't seem to have any search functionality on it, unless I'm missing something?
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Just found out my music is on TIDAL. Neat!
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Site doesn't work for me? Is it down?
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Wtf just searched and my music is there! Fucking nfts, I hate that shit!
But you know what? Joke's on them, no one is buying my music.
Lol I released my album last year and only my mom and wife bought it.
Only one sale after all that effort 🙁