p2pnet - rss feed: SoundExchange unfound artists — in sections
p2pnet news | P2P:- Yesterday saw the launch of the Fred Wilhelms / p2pnet Unfound Artist project created to locate performers who haven’t been paid by ex-RIAA service SoundExchange because it can’t seem to find them.
Fred, an entertainment lawyer based in Nashville, Tennessee, believes the online community can do a lot to help track down the thousands of people who are owed money and with that in mind, p2pnet recently posted his complete list of almost 8,000 people who don’t appear on the [un]SoundExchange horizon.
But it’s long, long, and as one p2pnet reader said >>>
would love to help out doing this but dont want to be redoing others work perhaps john could split the list in to chunks of say 50 names and people could say which ones they wish to claim. perhaps some table to show which have been contacted?
till this search is properly organized i will be working through the letter J
No sooner said than done and Bryan Hance, who runs RadioActivity.fm and who forked $40 out of his own pocket to help trace some of the missing artists, has broken the list down.
“It’s not by 50, but I’ve cut the SE missing artist list into alphabetized chunks for easier reference,” he says in a comment post.
The complete list is at: fronteranetworks.com/se/missing_ALL.txt
Alphabetical:
fronteranetworks.com/se/missing_A.txt
fronteranetworks.com/se/missing_B.txt
fronteranetworks.com/se/missing_C.txt
… and so on.
Meanwhile, it turns out the idea of running the SoundExchange list isn’t new.
Eliot Van Buskirk over at Wired’s Listening Post says he thinks the idea to crowd-source finding the artists is cool, also noting almost exactly a year ago he, too, ran a full list of artists not being paid by SoundExchange, “even though SoundExchange collects money from webcasters and satellite radio stations every time their songs get played”.
And it’s no surprise to find the lists from 2007 ands 2008 contain most of the same names.
“It’s understandable if SoundExchange can’t track down every last artist in the world, especially because musicians can be notoriously tough to get in touch with,” said Van Buskirk, adding:
“But Kraftwerk? Rita Lee (of Os Mutantes)? The Dust Brothers? Pharcyde? You’ve got to be kidding me.It’s understandable if SoundExchange can’t track down every last artist in the world, especially because musicians can be notoriously tough to get in touch with. But Kraftwerk? Rita Lee (of Os Mutantes)? The Dust Brothers? Pharcyde?
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Nope. It’s for real.
Still.
Use fronteranetworks.com/se/missing_ALL.txt for the 2008 list —- in sections 
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UPDATE: -
Also see Eliot’s latest post, ‘Project Unfound Artist’ Seeks to Make SoundExchange Pay, on Wired.
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April 30th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Also - if you’re going to tackle a specific list, let us know here or in some of the other comments so we don’t wind up duplicating each other’s labor.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
For example, I just took a crack at the Z’s:
fronteranetworks.com/se/Z_done.txt
April 30th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
This story is hilarious, and only sheds light on the ridiculous nature of the recording industry as a whole.
They exist to sponge up millions of dollars. Period.
The sooner they go away, the better the world will be.