So if your music is on Spotify, there is a good chance it’s been minted as an NFT by these asshats. I’m seeing comments everywhere that people had found their music minted - total random, unknown musicians.
When I attempted to check my music on https://www.hitpiece.com/ (I’m not on Shitify) the website was 404 and now there’s some “Beta” landing page that doesn’t offer squat.
This shit is out of pocket.
For as long as I’ve put my free stuff online, there’s always been some dickhead trying to sell it. From russian mp3 sites to youtubers uploading my vinyls and monetizing it, and now this NFT nonsense.
NFT. Just when you thought people stealing things online couldn’t get worse…
Hitpiece to Napster: “Hold my minted image of a beer”
So sick of hearing about NFT shit in music and gaming, or in general as it’s a total fucking swindle. Minting unsigned or just your average musicians actual Ip ia taking the fucking piss lad.
A friend of mine knows people at GoDaddy and AWS so was making sure they knew about the copyright infringements going on on their services. Not sure that’s what brought it down though.
Apparently there were Disney songs on there… Disney do not hold back when it comes to legal.
I find it depressingly hilarious their new slogan is the exact same Succession’s Greg and Tom were considering rebranding ATN with.
I once uploaded some tracks via distrokid on beatport , which i didn’t prolongue after one year , assuming they would be taken offline then … quite the oposite though… they are still available on many other places even the ones i never selected for distribution such as frikkin Instagram… didn’t receive any more payements though…
On topic : As much as i did understand the crypto market … i’m having a hard time getting the NFT thing … most of the “art” is stupid , childlike nonsens which is being hyped by influencers / famous people to suckers who will prolly have a hard time selling it back at the price they bought it … i also don’t see how these “exlusive rights” are any good to the music industry and towards consumers / fans … what am i missing here ?
You’re missing that it’s a straight up pyramid scheme scam: they profit, the buyer loses (probably fans), unless they manage to sell it off themselves. The illusion there is value to these things must be upheld and convincing, and who better to do that than one’s idols?
As far as I know the only exclusive rights involved is that the NFT - a digital code - belongs to you: there are no claims to copyright, or at the very least they are dicey (if even that).
but many legal questions about NFTs are confusing because there really are no clear answers yet. Because NFTs are just encrypted units of data stored on a digital ledger, usually the Ethereum blockchain, they do not themselves contain any visual content. They are rather tokens that merely refer to works of digital art by linking to them. Purchasers of NFTs typically acquire neither a physical object nor the copyright to a digital one. To own an NFT is to own a signifier without a referent.
Any artist who mints an NFT is dead to me.
Total edgelord, Schrodinger’s Douchebag MO: claim you were doing one thing depending on how people observing react.
There are tons of ppl on the planet who have nothing to eat or artists who have no place to live and work… and some are buying useless NFT cats or shitty NFT graphics for dozens of thousands $. The world becomes more and more freaky…
Yeah i thought so… i find the entire digital assets market weird , but maybe that’s just me getting old 
My 16 year old cousin though , whenever i give hime some money (birthday , xmas… ) he’s happy to buy a sword or new pair of sneakers for one of his characters in an online game … even more so than buying real sneakers for himself … meta is comming better get used to it … i read the other day that investment companies are buying all the land and real estate in virtual worlds … it blows my mind… i mean it totally get it on planet earth being finite , demand and offer etc … but online ? I will never ever ever buy a virtual piece of land , i don’t even wanna waste my time looking for one …
The art is bad for the same reason a lot of scam emails have obvious typos — because it helps filter out the non-suckers. Spam filters are pretty good these days, so typos don’t actually help spammers that much. However, if you’re running a scam, you have customer service costs, and you want to pre-filter for those customers that will give you the highest return on investment. Only someone who’s either an idiot or incredibly naieve would thing that a badly spelled email from your bank promising to give you money is real. Similarly, only someone with no understanding of art or copyright would think that some ugly ape is worth millions. The high profile folks you see doing it? They’re in on the ponzi now, and they need more poor suckers to come along after them or they’re out their money. Either that, or they’ve been paid by the folks running the scam to shill for them, and it’s not really their money.
That’s transhumanism training at a global scale.
I feel the same way about it all. Ive been finding myself screaming like a cantankerous old man about the world “you can have it!”
Ooooh are they some of those cool ‘disruptors’ that we all aspire to be?
Cunts.
I don’t use distrokid, but maybe you left “Leave a Legacy” enabled?
Disney-bombing has been used in the past online to take down abusive systems - people upload Disney material then report it. Their Lawyers will jump into action and do the rest.
No idea , i’ll have a look at that , thx !
