Now Spotify allowed people's to upload bootleg remixes as podcasts spotify
- Tech Backbone
They normally switch to sites such as SoundCloud and YouTube when most individuals try to find a reworking of their favourite tracks. Thanks to devoted fans who took the time to tweak those tracks, the fact that almost everyone can upload a track to those platforms has caused songs like 'Plastic Love' and 'Dead to Me' to reach whole new audiences. You don't think of a service like Spotify as a bootleg venue, but it was possible to find some of the most popular fan-made remixes on the web for a brief period. A workaround was discovered by some crafty people that allowed them to upload their favourite remixes to the podcast portion of the website. It was obviously quick to locate those tracks by using words like "chopped" and "screwed."
However, that was before an article on the phenomena was written by Variety, and Spotify started taking action against them. It's hard to tell how long these songs have been on Spotify, but what is obvious is that the trend has been stamped out by the company. Spotify has deleted all the tracks listed in the post, including 'Dead to Me', after Variety released its report. In comparison, we weren't able to find any remixes in the podcast segment when we sought to use the words highlighted by Variety. Any other mix of search words might encourage you to locate missing Spotify songs, but now that the practise has been highlighted, you have to believe that Spotify keeps a closer watch on individuals attempting to sneak tracks through its content filters.
It is not shocking that the company has taken decisive action against these tracks; the terms and conditions of Spotify clearly state that its podcast site "is not intended to be a music distribution tool." Obviously, if they want to upload content to the service, they direct people to their Spotify for Artists page.
"We take theft of intellectual property very seriously. In order to track, prosecute and cope with such activity, Spotify has many detection systems in place to monitor misuse of the app, a representative for the organisation told Variety. "We continue to invest heavily in refining those processes and improving detection and removal methods and reducing the impact on legitimate creators, rights holders and our users of this unacceptable activity."
Spotify obviously does not want its service to become a place where users can find remixes that could breach the rights of an artist, but at the same time, it is a shame that some of the more famous fan-made remixes can not find a spot on the site.
