Yeah so see below:
"According to the Copyright Act, a digital phonorecord delivery (DPD) is the digital transmission of a sound recording that results in a reproduction that can be identified by the recipient. The reproduction must be stable enough to be perceived, reproduced, or communicated for more than a short time.
DPDs include: Permanent downloads, Limited downloads, and Interactive streams.
However, a DPD is not considered to occur if the transmission is real-time and non-interactive, and no reproduction of the sound recording is made before the recipient receives it.
The Copyright Royalty Judges (CRJs) or a Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) establish rates for DPDs. These rates can be determined through negnegotiations between the affected parties, or by the CRJs or CARP if the parties can't agree".
SO HERE IS WHAT IM SEEING: nobody is saying people don't buy streams viS a viS advertisements and the such like an YouTube auto play of weekends newest song having a commercial about the weekends new song lolol.. AND it seems like the music industry even facilitates this legally (see above). Even when artists and labels pay to do the promoting.. THE PROBLEM IS WHEN IT IS NOT DISCLOSED. See below

SO: the discerning factor here, and what drakes teams banking on, is that they never disclosed the payola being outputted.. which ngl makes sense given the fact that they wanted to keep s*** quiet during the beef.. ladies and gentlemen ngl.. we may actually have a legit complaint here lmaoo.. really depends on disclosures, see below, it's def the theme of the complaint, still reading but im ngl the strat is promising, you really think they disclosed all this s*** publically during the beef? π€π¬π₯΄

Is payola supposed to be public information?
Is payola supposed to be public information?
apparently, payola is illegal, you are allowed to pay for s*** but it has to be disclosed
if drake wins the umg lawsuit he can buy xqc a new brain
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THEY BEGGING HIM TO SUE KENNY!!
Kanye somewhere f***ing gooning to this complaint!! πππ
400m record
180m stake
320m tour (idk how much he takes)
owns his masters
that alone is generational wealth and we aint even talking about previous tours, smaller business ventures (daves chicken, the whiskey, s*** we dont know about, etc)
crazy
Itβs funny people bringing up the Spotify Scorpion promo as a βgot yaβ when (despite being heavy handed) that was clearly done out in the open and we could see someone paid for promoβ¦ not secret bot farms inflating streams, although for all we know itβs been something in the past thatβs benefitted him (and other big artists)
The reality of that situation was this:
Spotify was in competition with Apple Music to boost their numbers and get additional subscribers using a new Drake release. Scorpion had been available on Apple Music for almost 3 hours before Spotify put it up (my guess is they had issues putting it up). Once it went live, they did that promo to push the album, while telling people to Sign Up to listen to the album. In reality, most of the playlists didn't have any Drake songs, just his pictures on the covers and it got taken quite fairly quickly because people complained.
That was something Spotify did, not Drake or UMG. He never need that sort of weird "promo" and the proof is in how well CLB performed without that promo.
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i can't give my number out they out for my head on here it's gonna get leaked
i can't give my number out they out for my head on here it's gonna get leaked
yeah you on thin ice rn man
i can't give my number out they out for my head on here it's gonna get leaked
itβs the boys bro
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THEY BEGGING HIM TO SUE KENNY!!
Kanye somewhere f***ing gooning to this complaint!! πππ
Kanye yelling at his computer screen "YO DOT I DONT GOT YOU"