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Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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Re: Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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Too bad... That's one of the things I liked about Spotify It gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent

There are still several services that "automagically" publish your music to several platforms at once. Some are pretty affordable, like DITTOMUSIC https://www.dittomusic.com/pricing

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Re: Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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Too bad... That's one of the things I liked about Spotify It gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent

To be clear, this is not Spotify blocking small artists without a label getting on Spotify. This is about bands not being able to upload directly, requiring them to use any of the cheaply available distributors instead. This is mostly likely an anti-fraud / anti-copyright infringement / QA move.

Re: Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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The submitted article doesn't mention it but my guess at connecting the dots is that it's related to EU Article 13's stringent requirement of "upload filters"[0].

Yes, Spotify's direct uploading "gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent" -- but that same mechanism also made it too easy to upload copyright infringing content.

Since Spotify does not have a machine learning AI copyright filter like Youtube's ContentID[1], shutting down the direct upload was their best course of action. Restricting uploads to their distribution partners (record labels) is the human version of the "contentid" algorithm.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=eu+"article+13"

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+"contentid"

Re: Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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post #8

Too bad... That's one of the things I liked about Spotify It gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent

There are still several services that "automagically" publish your music to several platforms at once. Some are pretty affordable, like DITTOMUSIC https://www.dittomusic.com/pricing

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.dittomusic.com

Re: Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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post #14

The submitted article doesn't mention it but my guess at connecting the dots is that it's related to EU Article 13's stringent requirement of "upload filters"[0]. Yes, Spotify's direct uploading "gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent" -- but that same mechanism also made it too easy to upload copyright infringing content. Since Spotify does not have a machine learning AI copyright filter like Youtu…

Good job, EU! Squelch your citizenry in the interest of the copyright industry. Content filtering is draconian and fundamentally opposed to a free and open society.

Re: Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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post #14

The submitted article doesn't mention it but my guess at connecting the dots is that it's related to EU Article 13's stringent requirement of "upload filters"[0]. Yes, Spotify's direct uploading "gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent" -- but that same mechanism also made it too easy to upload copyright infringing content. Since Spotify does not have a machine learning AI copyright filter like Youtu…

I think that's unlikely. If I am not mistaken, the EU directive will not be implemented for another two years.

Re: Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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post #17
post #14

The submitted article doesn't mention it but my guess at connecting the dots is that it's related to EU Article 13's stringent requirement of "upload filters"[0]. Yes, Spotify's direct uploading "gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent" -- but that same mechanism also made it too easy to upload copyright infringing content. Since Spotify does not have a machine learning AI copyright filter like Youtu…

Good job, EU! Squelch your citizenry in the interest of the copyright industry. Content filtering is draconian and fundamentally opposed to a free and open society.

Self hosted, federated alternative: funkwhale.audio

Re: Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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post #17
post #14

The submitted article doesn't mention it but my guess at connecting the dots is that it's related to EU Article 13's stringent requirement of "upload filters"[0]. Yes, Spotify's direct uploading "gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent" -- but that same mechanism also made it too easy to upload copyright infringing content. Since Spotify does not have a machine learning AI copyright filter like Youtu…

Good job, EU! Squelch your citizenry in the interest of the copyright industry. Content filtering is draconian and fundamentally opposed to a free and open society.

It keeps happening with their draconian regulations. After the privacy/data protection bill, I hear that the european market for online advertising imploded trying to meet regulations and Google Ads gobbled up some 30-40% more market share in Europe. It came down to the fact that Google was able to meet the regulations fastest, and achieve informed user consent across a wide userbase dramatically faster than small local outlets, so ad buyers flocked to the fastest and widest game in town.

One example: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image002.p...

Seems more true than ever that big regulations create big business moats that big businesses can easily absorb, but which demolish smaller businesses.

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