Someone Is Stealing Tracker Songs and Selling Them

Re:Someone Is Stealing Tracker Songs and Selling Them by rjmunro on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:38AM (#22663453)

Is it possible that the original author of these tracks is the one who has uploaded them to DistroKid? In which case it's not stealing at all. I guess it's fairly unlikely, though.

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Re:Someone Is Stealing Tracker Songs and Selling Them by kortex on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:59AM (#22663641)

It's possible but I doubt they would change their artist name. Usually when artists have multiple handles, for both legal and artistic reasons, they re-release a song using the original name.

The exception is when a solo artist wants to "cover" a song they wrote as part of a band.

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Re:Someone Is Stealing Tracker Songs and Selling Them by duskwuff on Monday March 23, 2020 @12:44PM (#22665775)

Seems unlikely. The tracks that Erik was able to identify were by a wide enough range of artists that it's hard to imagine that they'd all collaborate on a CD release.

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