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I don't think it was a good idea to upload it to Spotify then.
For the record, I support piracy and don’t mind that people listen to my music for free. I don’t like other companies making money off it though. They didn’t make it, they don’t get to use it to make money.
Its not so much the money I’m not making, it’s the theft of hard work artists put in and corporations profit off of that makes me upset.
In 2019 the only way to reach people was Spotify. It’s still kinda the biggest game in town. It’s slowly changing but the business and ideas of digital ownership of rights were different 7 years ago.
Oh my God 2019 is almost 7 years ago. That's insane.
Anyway, my point was ever since you uploaded it, it has been on the Internet for anyone to grab. Even before this, anyone competent enough to train an AI or host a competing music service would have been able to download it in the same way that these people did. The only difference is that now there's a copy being preserved that's not under the control of an evil corporation.
You have the right to feel any way you want about that, and you're entirely justified in being uncomfortable with how carelessly it may seem your hard work is being spread around and copied, but personally I think it's a good thing with very little drawback since it just makes it easier to do something that was already well within the abilities of the entities you're worried about.