NFTs were seen as a way for artists to take control of their work and earn money from it. Although this has been seen in recent months, creators aren’t really having choice for a trend they want to keep in mind. Art theft is rampant in the NFT space, where the pieces often being sold via sites like OpenSea without their knowledge. That’s not the case today.
The website HitPiece has been under fire for listing all albums for sale as NFTs without the artist’s knowledge or permission. The site was called out for by the creators of the site, but now claims to help, HitPiece has issued a statement to defend the practice, saying that musicians would still receive payments for the NFT sales on the platform.
That is not good for Ubisoft, but the lack of sufficient evidence will give them a chance of remarry.
To date, HitPiece had to continue to allow users to buy tracks and albums as NFTs, despite the criticism from Twitter in which artists said that they would not accept if their work was not used in this way. Tom has, however, since he closed trading, leaving behind the message: “We started the conversation and were listening.”
HitPiece issued a statement on Twitter, though all of the artists were excluded.
According to the tweet, “Clearly we’ve struck a nerve and want the best music experience” for all the fans. “To be clear, artists get paid when digital goods are sold on HitPiece. As with all beta products, we’re continuing listening to all user feedback and committed to developing the product to suit the needs of artists, labels and fans alike.”
In correspondence with frustrated artists, HitPiece claimed that tracks were sold as NFTs by artists with permission from producers. Unfortunately, there is evidence that everything is just being removed from Spotify and the music wasn’t actually being sold on HitPiece. The site was live and promised to investors “access and experiences”, whatever that means.
It’s incredibly similar to bot accounts, which steal asset to sell as NFTs. Recently, that was done in a popular YouTube channel, where those who bought a channel didn’t actually own anything of their own to do with the channel itself.
The gamer took into contact with HitPiece for help.
