Comment on Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back. | Bad Dog, a group from D.C., was forced to take a crash course in streaming fraud, a shadowy realm that costs musicians $2b/yr

kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

In the late 1990s and early aughts, millions of fans routinely downloaded songs from online peer-to-peer file services without paying a penny, a fiasco that cost the industry a fortune.

I guess in potential lost pennies, peer to peer sorta means they wouldn't be involved in hosting the files and paying for bandwidth.

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