With the pressure on, distributors may need to be more proactive about their role in the spread of fraud moving forward. Will they be?
IMPALA, AIM and A2IM are accusing the powerful platform of trying to divide the independent sector by boycotting licensing talks with the organization.
This week's most important music industry stories in Canada.
The annual report by the U.S. Trade Representative notes many e-commerce and social platforms did implement "new anti-counterfeiting tools" last year.
Beatdapp also announced partnerships with SoundExchange and Napster
While Spotify is just now moving towards a penalty system, Apple quietly started making "financial adjustments" for repeat fraudsters more than a year ago.
Labels and distributors will be charged 10 euros per song when Spotify determines the overwhelming majority of plays on a track are artificial.
A report alleging that gangs buy fake streams arrives at a time when executives are calling for better monitoring of the streaming ecosystem.
Svenska Dagbladet reported that Swedish law enforcement believes criminals use streaming platforms to launder money.
A coalition of digital distributors, along with Spotify and Amazon Music, have launched Music Fights Fraud to attempt to eradicate the issue.
