If you make dance music or follow independent labels, you already know streaming feels completely rigged. Between fractions of a cent per play and walls of generic background filler, getting tracks heard organically is a brutal system. Now, the federal government is actually stepping in to pull back the curtain on the black market siphoning cash out of the system. The U.S. Copyright Office officially published a formal Notice of Inquiry. It is digging into music streaming fraud, artificial stream inflation, and royalty theft. This investigation spans across platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer. The Feds Are…
