In an effort to fully degrade themselves, Soundcloud has taken 70% of Kaskade‘s music off his account, due to copyright. Bombarded by 32 emails in the past couple days, Kaskade is feeling the wrath that is Soundcloud’s newly found balls. Thanks to major labels, Soundcloud is now kicking into gear a campaign that will slaughter up and coming producers and I guess even a few big artists, like Kaskade. Luckily for Kaskade, he has the backing of Ultra, who is seeing that these removals are put back onto his account. Other producers will not have the same luxury. Whether they were mistakes – let’s face it, Soundcloud has a lot of those – or just them doing what they think is right, the fact remains that there are multiple issues here that aren’t being dealt with pragmatically. All I know is, dishing out oppression is not how to fix anything.
I have gotten 32 emails like this over the past 2 days… *end of an era pic.twitter.com/LRT9IUqJrM
— Kaskade (@kaskade) June 4, 2014
I imagine over the next week my entire sound cloud will be taken down. Sorry but there is nothing I can do here.
— Kaskade (@kaskade) June 4, 2014
It’s a bummer as I have worked to build that page up and put great stuff on there. (*shrugs shoulders) ahhh well.
— Kaskade (@kaskade) June 4, 2014
Although 70% of my sound cloud has been taken down you might want to consider visiting it and grabbing those last bits…
— Kaskade (@kaskade) June 4, 2014
Yes, so I will move forward with constructing my own portal where I can share what I like when I like.
— Kaskade (@kaskade) June 4, 2014
Nice! Just wanna share w/ others. Is that so wrong? “@ultrarecords: @kaskade we don’t know how it happened, but it should be back up asap!”
— Kaskade (@kaskade) June 4, 2014
I don’t really see where talks about making his own “music platform”, which sounds like a soundcloud competitor. This definitely sounds more like simply self-hosting his music.
Soundcloud seriously suck balls , happens alot to me and other fellow producer friends ..
soundcloud is the worst website that i know of
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/22uts4/great_news_bitcoin_implemented_into_decentralized/ >> this can certainly be implemented into a music sharing platform as well
Just had this happen and boy does it leave a bad feeling in my mouth. Time to vote with my wallet and give my monthly $15 to MixCloud
this same shit is happening to me…i had to delete 80 percent of my soundlcloud and today i got another message…be careful everyone big brother is watching and terrorizing edm
I’m gonna be honest the first thing I was taught is to make sure your samples aren’t under any license. For him to want to make a new platform just because he doesn’t follow the rules that 80% of producers do is stupid IMO. He could go through his songs and find the samples and probably change them or maybe actually pay the person who has the license.
Recently I’ve gotten into discovering new music from Newgrounds, but Soundcloud is the one I go to to find a lot of good new stuff from up-and-comers. I don’t want that to change for the worse like it looks it is going to 🙁
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“Creating my own portal” sounds like the kind of thing people say when they don’t know how involved that is. You would have to stop doing music and just focus on your music portal start-up to make it even viable.
They fixed it, so this article is now useless.