• 6 months ago
Les fermes de streaming dévoilent un côté sombre de l'industrie musicale, où des bots jouent artificiellement des morceaux pour manipuler les classements.

Ces systèmes, souvent appelés le marché noir de la musique, permettent à certains artistes et labels de gonfler les chiffres pour augmenter leur visibilité et leurs revenus.

En 2019, on estimait le coût à 300 millions de dollars par an aux artistes avec des streams légitimes, soit trois à quatre pour cent de tous les streams, un chiffre aujourd'hui bien plus élevé.

Un rapport de 2023 du Financial Times estime que jusqu'à 10 % des streams musicaux mondiaux sont factices.

En mars, un cas a émergé avec la condamnation d'un Danois pour avoir généré frauduleusement 290 000 dollars de royalties via des streams fictifs.

Les plateformes comme Spotify et Apple Music intensifient leurs efforts pour contrer ces pratiques, surveillant les anomalies et infligeant des sanctions en cas de détection de fraude.

Toutefois, avec les progrès de l'IA, la capacité à combattre efficacement cette fraude reste incertaine.

Sources : Now This, Financial Times

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00:00 Here's what a streaming farm looks like.
00:01 Also known as the black market of the music industry,
00:03 this is how some artists and labels distort reality to propel their songs
00:07 to the top of the rankings and earn more money.
00:09 Streaming farms use bots to artificially play music
00:12 on platforms like Spotify or Apple Music
00:14 in order to drastically increase the number of streams.
00:16 In March, a Dane was sentenced to 18 months in prison
00:18 for extorting $290,000 from royalties for fictitious streams.
00:22 But this rare case is only a glimpse of the extent of this fraud.
00:24 In 2019, the cost of streaming was estimated at $300 million a year
00:27 for artists with legitimate streams, which is 3 to 4% of all streams,
00:31 a much higher figure today.
00:32 According to a report by the Financial Times in 2023,
00:35 10% of all music streams in the world are fake.
00:37 Streaming services like Spotify are trying to fight these practices
00:40 by monitoring anomalies such as sudden listening issues
00:42 or prolonged rehearsals.
00:43 If a fraud is detected, they can retain the royalties,
00:46 inform the labels, remove the tracks from the platform,
00:48 and inflict fines.
00:49 However, some artists say they are targeted by bots
00:52 and unjustly punished as a result.
00:54 Apple Music has also penalized this fraud since 2022,
00:56 but in one way or another, people continue to steal from the royalties.
00:59 And with the progress of AI, the extent of this problem remains uncertain.

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