According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.
  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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    1 day ago

    and this, friends, is what us anti-ai people been warning about with regards to ip ownership all along. it’s not that we’re anti piracy, it’s that if there’s a set of rules for the people, and a set of rules for the technoligarchs, who’s getting fucked is the people.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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      1 day ago
      • platform racists
      • pay racists for exclusive rights to platform
      • remove songs requested taken down by authoritarian governments because it’s important to them they do business in those countries (apparently)
      • leave “heil hitler” up despite it being an obvious problem “because it’s not their place to censor art” (see prior point)
      • use algorithms to push down challenging and importart art and promote unchallenging consumable music, or worse right wing propaganda
      • the media bubbles regardless of what’s in the bubbles isolate us
      • don’t pay artists what their music is worth even though what we pay for is access to the music the artists make
      • this ai bullshit

      what else am i missing? because i know there’s tons more

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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          1 day ago

          god. yeah. that’s a good point. i tend to blame amazon more for that shit, but a podcast should just be an rss feed with audio files, goddammit

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    1 day ago

    This is why we have to go anti corpo as much as possible and every where possible.

    A corpo in inherently is the enemy of the worker, taxpyer and consumer

    They fuck us at every stage. Obstruction is the way.

    Deny the parasite profit and engagement

  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    As if the youtuber get rick quick scheme of ai generating remixes and puttting them on Spotify wasn’t dumb enough.

    I have no problem with music that is / has AI generation. I have a problem (and always have had a problem) with people that are straight up counterfeiting legit pieces with these legally distinct AI remixes.