Noise #124: Phantom artists, stolen songs
The newest variant of digital piracy.
The New York Times describes how Bad Dog, a folk duo from Washington, DC, randomly discovered their songs posted on streaming services—under different names and credited to different artists.
Welcome to music streaming fraud, the weird new world where hacked Spotify accounts, pirated music, bot farms, and tracks containing nothing but white noise collid…
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