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Michael

@Paradox

Music entrepreneur

 Auckland, New Zealand
youtube.com/@Michael
Joined April 2007
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Update: Instagram finally restored my account. Here’s hoping the exploit is truly fixed this time (I had recovered it many times over the past few months, only to be hacked again) All my photos dating back to 2016 were deleted, but at least I am back in
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Literally a minute after my account was reinstated, it was banned again This has been a back and forth for months
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They would continually fix my account, and then it would get overridden and hacked again. I have over 85 emails with their support. Then they said they could no longer help me as this was an “unauthorized request” — I have been the owner of this account for over ten years.
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After I kept recovering the account, the hacker was able to get the account banned for “account integrity” — I would appeal this and it would get reinstated, only for the hacker to be able to get it banned again.
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The hacker also tried to extort me on WhatsApp, claiming they would ban the account if I did not pay them
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Every time Meta’s own employees would reinstate the account — it would get hacked again and prevent me from recovering it. They knew about this exploit and did nothing to fix it (I believe this exploit is different to the AI exploit)
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Immediately, I wrote to our Meta representative to inform them that they needed to look into this exploit, which they clearly did not patch. The hacker also prevented me from submitting this through our media support portal.
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Meta allowed my single character Instagram username (@i) to be stolen through an exploit in their platform, dating back to February this year. My email, password and phone number were never compromised — yet somehow a hacker was able to gain access to my account 🧵
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While I do believe UMG conspired against Drake, Apple vs Spotify USA charts are always usually different. Apple has much higher uptake on R&B/hip-hop music.
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You’re not even trying to hide it? @Spotify
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And that’s JUST for performing rights, let’s not get started on mechanicals, sync etc 🍵
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There should be a global and transparent solution for digital performance royalties. Almost every artist in the world misses out on significant income because of those opaque system. The music business is meant to be extremely complex to stop artists receiving their royalties.
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Since PROs (including APRA) get their money upfront — they are not incentivized to make sure that money is accurately distributed to songwriters. Regardless of how many streams the PRO’s catalogue gets — they get paid the same amount per the negotiated fee.
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If you have a generic song (or a generic legal name) there’s a high likelihood someone else could be receiving your royalties. PROs enter into blanket licenses with platforms (like YouTube, Meta etc) in exchange for upfront payments to license their full catalogues.
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More often than not, they won’t process your registration for months or years. Then, you have to count on them to also register the song at every international PRO, match the DSP data they get (from hundreds of different platforms) to your registration.
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Performing rights organizations (or PROs) like BMI & APRA are notoriously non-transparent around their licensing deals and plagued with data issues. As a songwriter, you would register your song and splits with one of these organizations hoping you’ll get paid.
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The music industry is run like a cartel. Those in the cartel are all on the same team, covertly working together to siphon billions away from artists in a number of nuanced ways and to stifle independent companies.
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Epstein island was an Israeli Mossad op to blackmail US politicians. AIPAC makes our govt put Israel’s interests before ours. Covid was a scam & we got poisoned while Israeli big pharma made billions and our Israeli controlled govt & media forced it. The US is an occupied nation.
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will smith bad
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just logging back into my twtr
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