It has been reported that Norwegian songwriters, composers, and music publisher named Tono have filed an official complaint against Jay-Z’s streaming company; TIDAL.
According to reports by Digital Music News, the decision to do so came after a report from Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) recently published an inflammatory article about the service, suggesting that it artificially manipulated streaming numbers for Beyoncé and Kanye West’s catalogs, resulting in hefty royalty payouts for them. Dagens came to this conclusion after a two-year-long investigation working alongside Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s Center for Cyber and Information Security (CCIS).
The CCIS report revealed that the streaming service had manipulated up to 320 million false listening sessions and deliberately manipulated genuine user accounts to inflate the total streaming plays.
TIDAL’s lawyer; Jordan W. Seiv has…
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