You’d think access to a wealth of streaming services would have obliterated music piracy by now, but unfortunately it’s still an unruly problem that the industry must contend with.
How they go about it is really their business. Naturally, major labels have departments devoted to quashing piracy, but smaller labels and independent musicians aren’t so fortunate.
If you haven’t noticed, the internet is big and protecting your own music from piracy, or in the case of an indie label, that of dozens, even hundreds of musicians, without resources is difficult.
Enter Topple Track. The anti-piracy firm puts copyright protection into the hands of the artists, literally. Topple Track does all the work of cracking down on pirates and artists can keep track on their own time.
Basically, artists provide Topple Track with metadata on their music and the service then goes about its job of scouring the internet. When it sees your material being pirated, it submits DMCA takedowns via Google.
“We’ve taken down nearly 6 million illegal links from search results and continue to do so. The service is open for Distribution clients as well as Non-Distribution clients,” a statement on their website reads.
“Topple Track scans on a daily basis and we submit DMCA takedowns daily as well. If a search does not result in returning any links… you can submit additional links for our system to review and potentially send DMCA takedowns.”
“Piracy is rampant and evolves on a daily basis so there is no true system that can scan each and every new website or link that contains pirated content thus, at no charge, we accept manual links for us to submit takedown notifications for.”
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Topple Track aren’t the only anti-piracy service out there, but they boast that they are the “most cost effective”, offering sliding scale prices and discount rates when you repurchase protection.
“Other firms will charge you a flat rate per track per month. If you have a high amount of tracks in your catalog, that can surely run you in the thousands… [Our] pricing is set based on the amount of tracks in a release.”
“If you have 2 tracks, it’s 7 dollars per track totaling $14 dollars for 2 months worth of protection. After your 2 months are up, you will have the choice to renew for an additional 2 months but at the price of $3 dollars per track.”
