https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/business/music-streaming-fraud-spotify.html (€ / metered Paywall)

Faszinierendes Stück darüber, wie Musik über ein undurchsichtiges, vielschichtiges System aus Agenturen, Sub- und Tochterunternehmungen illegal bei den großen Musikstreamingservices hochgeladen und monetarisiert wird.

[…] the vast and arcane world of music streaming fraud, a realm where anonymous pirates are constantly devising new ways to steal from the $17 billion a year pool of royalty money intended for artists.

That’s a giant, tempting pot of gold for scammers around the world. Beatdapp, a Vancouver company that detects fraud for industry clients, estimates that a little more than 10 percent of that pot, about $2 billion, is swiped annually.

David Segal „Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back.“