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Earlier this week, Sony sent a takedown notice to Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox asking for free music downloads to be removed from his blog. The problem is, Sony doesn't actually own the music that was being asked to be removed.
Bradford Cox released four volumes of home demos on his blog for all to download, for free, but for some reason, Sony demanded volume 2-4 to be removed, and even went after Mediafire, the file hosting service that Cox had uploaded the songs to.
When Cox confronted Sony that none of the songs belonged to Sony music, Sony eventually backed down and apologised for the "mistake".
However, this brings into focus how Sony performs its anti-piracy activities, and if a mistake like this could happen, how many other mistakes have been made?
Meanwhile, a competitor label suffers as a result of Sony, and the mainstream music industry's iron fist policy towards online piracy.
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Bradford Cox released four volumes of home demos on his blog for all to download, for free, but for some reason, Sony demanded volume 2-4 to be removed, and even went after Mediafire, the file hosting service that Cox had uploaded the songs to.
When Cox confronted Sony that none of the songs belonged to Sony music, Sony eventually backed down and apologised for the "mistake".
However, this brings into focus how Sony performs its anti-piracy activities, and if a mistake like this could happen, how many other mistakes have been made?
Meanwhile, a competitor label suffers as a result of Sony, and the mainstream music industry's iron fist policy towards online piracy.
More:
