RE: 'Musicians On The Blockchain' Series : #5 | Step By Step Guide | Open Your Musicoin Account & Upload Your First Song & Extra Tips
Thank you for this description of musicoin. I already knew about it, and reading your article makes me want to give it a go, however something is still holding me back: Piracy... I am not talking of listener Piracy, I don't care about that, and I actually encourage it. I aim at those that take your music and make money out of your work without approval.
Let me tell you my story (and that of many composers like me). I used to demo my tracks on Soundcloud, until one day I found all my catalog for sale on some weird sites. Some ass-hole dudes ripped my music, compiled it into albums, placed themselves as the composers/producer and then managed to sell the albums and make money out of my work... And no way, independants, we have the financial means to legally fight these crooks stealing our work... We are not Sony or Apple... It's just not worth the time, stress and expenses.
All the indie composers I know of have had this happened to them to. It's part of life, and I just take the measures to slow these assholes down.
The solution I took was to systematically hard watermark everything I put on the internet, and to only work with publishers that apply watermarking when presenting the tracks publicly (all serious ones do).
Now, If I start using musicoin, I am afraid of seeing this happen again. I know my rights are conserved because copyright is embeded within the principle of blockchain technology, however, I have no way to defend myself against abuse... I am dying to use it, and I will probably upload a few tracks to give it a go, but I so would wish there was a solution proposed to protect indie composers work from these parasites..
Any thoughts?
@muphy mah man !
Thank u for the feedback and sorry to hear about that messed up experience u had, piracy is nasty and to be honest if some people wants to pirate and steal unfortunately til date there isn't a 100% secure confirmed solution that im aware of does that, with that said if u interested to know more about that i just wrote an extensive case study on my personal experience with Musicoin and the Blockchain "Smart Contracts" technology it uses for copyrights and more u can check it out here if u interested
https://steemit.com/blockchain/@djlethalskillz/musicians-on-the-blockchain-series-4-blockchain-reshaping-the-music-industry-and-the-new-opportunities-to-earn-from-your
I can tell u one thing and assure you that from my personal experience this is the only platform i joined til date that i had that much returns and earns in a very short time from my music instantly.
As you can see in the screenshot from my Musicoin page im nearing the earnings of around 1K USD value in Musicoin and with that said the Musicoin crypto is just booming in the exchange market as we speak, all
Signs are showing that the Musicoin value is Booming with new artists joining daily as they hearing about Musicoin and how much musicians are earning, its a much better pay platform then the likes of Spotify, **itunes ** and the likes as u can see here and this is old data in comparison to the Musicoin value now in the market $0.088668 USD
I can go all about Musicoin as it has been nothing but a great experience to me. I really like UI user interface to the ease on licensing and publishing my music to managing royalty reward split across multi musicians on one song to the ease of integrating and promoting my content from Musicoin into other social media platforms like twitter, fb and such to automatically increase my listeners reach, promote my content creation and music and instantly earn each time someone hits Play on the embedded player from any other platform!
Hope sharing my little experience and information provided can assist u in making up ur mind moving forward, if u want my advise give it a shot put few older songs u have done and have a feel of the platform and Musicoin community, and would love to hear ur feedback once or if u do it anytime.
Nice meeting another fellow community member and a musician and wishing u a fruitful and great journey on the Blockchain!
Kudos