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AI music detection, distributor compliance, DSP policy shifts, and how we build the tooling behind the ingest pipeline.
TuneCore's AI verdict on 'Praying' was right. The process was still broken.
Indie artist Yasia Saienko went viral calling TuneCore's AI rejection a black box. We ran the same track through DistroShield. Both detectors agreed. The takeaway isn't who's right — it's that no artist should get a one-sided verdict with no independent signal.
Spotify removed 75 million AI tracks in a year. The DSP enforcement wave is now trilateral.
Spotify disclosed removal of 75M+ AI-generated tracks over 12 months. Combined with Qobuz/FUGA (Jul 13) and Deezer (Jul 21), the three largest AI enforcement moves in the industry all happened in the same 10-day window. What that means for distributors and human artists.
AI is now the majority of Deezer's daily uploads. Retroactive takedowns are starting.
Deezer received 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks per day in June — the first month AI crossed 50% of new uploads. Retroactive takedowns of stream-fraud AI and unplayed AI catalog are now live. What that changes for distributors and human artists.
Signed certificate: forensic proof for music disputes
DistroShield's certificate is a signed PDF with a verifiable SHA-256 hash. How to use it in a dispute with a distributor, DSP, or rights team, and why the hash is what turns it into real evidence.
Shield: continuous monitoring of your music rights
Shield is DistroShield's weekly monitoring service. If someone uploads a copy of your track to another distributor, your composer credits change, or your metadata is altered — you get an email with the exact detail. How it works and why we built it this way.
Suno's leaked code confirms it scraped Deezer, YouTube, Genius
A hacker breach exposed Suno's source code, listing YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius among its training-data sources. What this means for distributors carrying AI-generated tracks.
Qobuz starts rejecting AI-generated content today. FUGA is enforcing at the distributor tier.
On July 13, 2026, Downtown Music Holdings' FUGA activates rejection of 100% AI-generated content at delivery time under Qobuz's AI Charter. This is the first DSP-driven, distributor-enforced AI ban to actually turn on. Here's what changes for indie distributors.
RIAA proposes AI music labels. Here's what distributors need to do before the DSP does it for them.
RIAA, IFPI, A2IM and the Recording Academy propose two AI labels — AI-generated and AI-assisted — for Spotify, Apple Music and other DSPs. The compliance burden lands on distributors. Here's what that means at the ingest layer.
Two real fraud catches in production
Two real cases caught by DistroShield in production on the same day. Cross-distributor identity fraud (4 artists, same recording) and an album-coherence false-negative recovery. Anonymized for public sharing.