This report maps how the world's largest digital platforms and music streaming services host, amplify, monetize, and profit from a growing genre of Indian music that dehumanizes Muslims and Christians and incites violence against them.
Indiemusi.ch
The current state of social media leaves us with a lot of questions. How can we stay united as music players amidst of platform monopolies?
Soulless: List of AI Artists Hiding on Spotify
Soulless: AI music is stealing from real artists. AI music analyzer (open source).
Soulless: List of AI Artists Hiding on Spotify
Soulless: AI music is stealing from real artists. AI music analyzer (open source).
Owning media again - Kedara.eu
This year, one of my aspirations is to rely less on the big streaming services for my entertainment. Why? Well, for one thing, if we give too much power to large corporations by getting overly …
A Modest Proposal In The New Age of DMCA Takedown Aggression
Just two weeks ago, my colleague Denver posted a criticism of Microsoft's GitHub for its capitulation to the RIAA takedown notice — which alleged, with specious evidence, that youtube-dl violated 17 USC § 1201. Frankly, this is the kind of behavior we'd expect from the RIAA — an organization controlled in recent decades by two dudes who seem to have helped write § 1201. No one is surprised when the RIAA attacks FOSS projects.
SlopTracker — Exposing AI-Generated Artists on Spotify
AI-generated artists are flooding Spotify, racking up millions of streams, and siphoning revenue from real musicians. See the receipts.
How Solarpunk Could Solve Capitalism's Major Greed Problem
Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market
Hit songs, books, and movies are many times more successful than average, suggesting that “the best” alternatives are qualitatively different from “the rest”; yet experts routinely fail to predict which products will succeed. We investigated this paradox experimentally, by creating an artificial “music market” in which 14,341 participants downloaded previously unknown songs either with or without knowledge of previous participants' choices. Increasing the strength of social influence increased both inequality and unpredictability of success. Success was also only partly determined by quality: The best songs rarely did poorly, and the worst rarely did well, but any other result was possible.
Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market
Hit songs, books, and movies are many times more successful than average, suggesting that “the best” alternatives are qualitatively different from “the rest”; yet experts routinely fail to predict which products will succeed. We investigated this paradox experimentally, by creating an artificial “music market” in which 14,341 participants downloaded previously unknown songs either with or without knowledge of previous participants' choices. Increasing the strength of social influence increased both inequality and unpredictability of success. Success was also only partly determined by quality: The best songs rarely did poorly, and the worst rarely did well, but any other result was possible.
Subvert - The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace
“Subvert goes beyond hopetimism with a meticulously built, actionable framework. Very exciting!”
Subvert - The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace
“Subvert goes beyond hopetimism with a meticulously built, actionable framework. Very exciting!”
Last.fm | Play music, find songs, and discover artists
The world's largest online music service. Listen online, find out more about your favourite artists, and get music recommendations, only at Last.fm
Last.fm | Play music, find songs, and discover artists
The world's largest online music service. Listen online, find out more about your favourite artists, and get music recommendations, only at Last.fm