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Do Not Repost My Audios On Spotify
🕑 Added 2024-12-28 13:41:00 +0000 UTCAlready made a post about this last year, but it seems no one got the message. And things have gotten worse.
On my own I have found 30 audios of mine reuploaded onto Spotify, all parts of podcasts that are full of stolen audios from other creators. Some say you can contact them and ask them to take it down, but Spotify has no DM function so how am I supposed to do that? Also. You should just not do it in the first place. I can guarantee you no creator is okay with this, none of them. You can get copyright takedowns for this as people's audios do count as their own work that is copyrighted, and you are stealing potential income from these creators by getting people to listen to their work on Spotify instead of on their Youtube where they make ad revenue. But in my case you're stealing more of my income that just that, because like I said, this time it's worse.
So we've got the tier 1 Spotify reuploaders. They rip audios from Youtube and put them on Spotify. There is literally no need to do this. All of my public SFW audios are available on Youtube to listen too for free. If you want to listen to them without ads and be able to turn off your screen you could get Youtube Premium or you could listen to them on soundgasm (if you're 18+). If you want to listen to them without an internet connection you could get Youtube Premium or join my $5 Patreon tier (if you're 18+) and get free HD downloads of all my public audios. Or... you could find some mystical way of creating mp3s from Youtube videos and I won't know you're doing it and I can't stop you and then you'd just have them. And I'm guessing that's what these Spotify reuploader's have done and I'm not gonna call anyone out for doing that... but then just keep those files to yourself, you don't need to reupload them. By reuploading them you're taking away my Youtube views and ad revenue.
Then we've got tier 2 Spotify reuploaders. These guys are ripping full 18+ explicit sexual audios from my soundgasm (18+ only) and putting them onto Spotify. These podcasts are full of 18+ audios from various creators. And for those unaware, Spotify does not allow pornographic or explicit sexual content on their platform. Because of course it doesn't. It's not that sort of platform. These reuploaders are not only stealing content, but putting it on a platform that doesn't allow it. At least one of these podcasts labelled themself as "16+" despite having this explicit sexual content. It doesn't matter if the age of consent in your country/state is 16 or younger, if it's on the internet where people from countries who's age of consent is 18 (the highest of any country) you have to label it as 18+ not a younger age. Having my content stolen, whether it's my audios or art, always feels gross. It feels even grosser when it's sexual content of you.
And the thing that makes this all so much worse this time around, the worst of the worst Spotify reuploader I have seen, the only one in tier 3. Why are they here? Because they have been reuploading my private, behind-a-pay-wall, Patreon exclusive, 18+ sexual audios onto Spotify. They are not only stealing content. They are not only posting explicit sexual content onto Spotify. They are stealing and leaking Patreon exclusive content onto Spotify, directly stealing from my main steam of income, and posting them for free. Have we all watched or listened too pirated content in our lives? Most likely yes. But I hope we all understand the big difference between watching a pirated copy of a Disney movie, a giant corporation who's still going to make money, and leaking a small creator's Patreon content. If all my Patreon audios were public I wouldn't have my main source of income, I wouldn't be able to pay my rent, for food, etc, and I'm not able to do other sorts of work due to mental and physical health problems. Leaking Patreon content is not the same as showing others something you've bought. If you buy a figurine and show a friend they may also want to buy that figurine and woa now two people own that figurine. If you buy one of my audios and show a friend they now aren't going to come and buy an audio they already have free access too, does that make sense? I hope we can all understand the difference it is to leak pay-walled content from a small creator.
Do not send hate to anyone who has reuploaded my work, do not try and find their socials, do not try and harass them or contact them in any way.
If you are a Spotify reuploader please listen to me: stop uploading more audios and delete all the ones you have already uploaded. It is never okay to reupload someone's work without permission. You do not reupload and then say you'll take it down if you ask. You ask first and then wait to get permission, if they say no you don't do it, and if they never answer you don't do it. But I find it extremely unlikely any creator would say yes. I can't believe I'm even slightly appreciating that at least those of you who just stole my Youtube videos at least didn't steal from my Patreon. But that doesn't make it okay. None of this is okay. Never upload my audios onto Spotify. And if you've listened to my audios on Spotify, it wasn't me who uploaded them, please stop listening to them on there.
Like I already said, it's easy to gain access to my audios, even for listening with your phone screen off or offline. Get them however you get them, I can't stop you, but don't reupload them. If you reupload them I am able and willing to report them and have them taken down.
If anyone finds more that I haven't already found and listed here please do let me know.
Comments
Kaotic_Kai
Honestly, I’m waiting for the day one of your reuploaded audios pops up as a suggestion on my Spotify. I’m ready to rip into/about that person on the block and report section😅
RubyAngel
I’m so sorry. This is so awful. We’ll all be vigilant. You don’t deserve this. 😢
Yawny
It's so frustrating that you have to take the time to individually report them all. Wish people would just stop reposting. Hopefully Spotify keeps these ones down too! 🤞
Prince
ah thanks but yes i have already reported everything, that's 34 reported today and they're all currently down and off spotify while under investigation by spotify so we'll just have to wait and see if they ever go back up. the ones from last year that i reported never went back up so either spotify kept them down or the reuploaders deleted them.
Yawny
I'm so sorry people are doing this, that's awful. I've had a few podfics stolen/reposted before and submitting one of these forms helped (for some reason they only removed 2/3 of the things I reported though) https://support.spotify.com/us/report-content/
Bugz
genuinely abhorrent behaviour that people go and steal work like this, independent and small creators should have their work respected, i dont care much for massive corporations that extort their employees but independent artists are the heart of the art world and its beyond disgusting to violate someones work like this. also gonna pop onto spotify to report these, and i really hope they get taken down asap /gen
prettynymph
this is absolutely unacceptable, to steal an artists work at all is already vile but to do so with work that’s paywall exclusive and generates income is even more reprehensible. will absolutely report these so they hopefully get taken down as everyone else should
Collective Unit System
I report these Everytime I find them.
Tulip Tulipson
Stealing other peoples work like that is horrible I hate it
