By SOLAR_FIELDS
This has happened before, and the content creators face the same struggle. The most egregious example that I know of is Benn Jordan, aka The Flashbulb, who claims that ITunes, Google, etc. have made over 6 figures from selling music that someone uploaded without his permission:
https://torrentfreak.com/artist-cant-get-pirated-music-off-i…
Unfortunately, as others have pointed out, musicians do not earn the same sympathy as programmers for the same issue, at least not here on Hacker News.
It really sucked for Benn, who openly releases his own music on torrents and is active on What.cd, because he notes in his blog that he had to hire an orchestra for the album that got stolen. The album is called Arboreal. He had to bankroll 50 grand to make the album so it was a big loss for him for a long time.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10643993
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