Hacker News with Generative AI: Music Industry

The decline of the working musician (newyorker.com)
Before the gig economy consumed a third of the workforce, it was mostly musicians who worried about gigs.

Music Industry, Gig Economy, Employment

168 points by tintinnabula 32 days ago | 245 comments

Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace (subvert.fm)
Bandcamp's corporate acquisitions threaten independent music. It's time for a new model - one we collectively own and control.

Music Industry, Decentralization, Ownership, Blockchain, Web3

230 points by cloudfudge 46 days ago | 136 comments

Limp Bizkit fraud lawsuit rattles music industry–'These accusations are massive' (theguardian.com)
One of the world’s largest music companies has been accused of depriving “potentially hundreds” of artists and bands of their royalties by the 90s nu-metal band Limp Bizkit.

Music Industry, Lawsuits, Legal Disputes, Nu-Metal, Royalties

9 points by bookofjoe 51 days ago | 0 comments

The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet Archive (rollingstone.com)
In the old chapel of a former Christian Science church in San Francisco, late-afternoon sun pours orange through the windows and several giant servers are hard at work.

Legal Battles, Music Industry, Internet Archive, Copyright

179 points by coloneltcb 63 days ago | 95 comments

Music Industry's 1990s Hard Drives Are Dying (arstechnica.com)
One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable.

Data Storage, Music Industry, Technology, History

49 points by m463 82 days ago | 42 comments

Man accused of using bots and AI to earn streaming revenue (bbc.com)
A musician in the US has been accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools and thousands of bots to fraudulently stream songs billions of times in order to claim millions of dollars of royalties.

Music Industry, Artificial Intelligence, Fraud, Streaming

9 points by PotatoNinja 86 days ago | 4 comments

The Bands and the Fans Were Fake. The $10M Was Real (nytimes.com)

Music Industry, Fraud, Money

30 points by cainxinth 89 days ago | 20 comments

Record labels forgot these songs existed. One man rescued them (bbc.com)

Music, History, Archives, Music Industry

10 points by toddmorey 100 days ago | 1 comments

Rescuing songs that record labels forgot existed (bbc.co.uk)

Music Industry, Music, Archives

163 points by walthamstow 100 days ago | 36 comments

How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis (statsignificant.com)