A website called HitPiece that has been selling music-related NFTs has temporarily closed after artists accused it of appropriating their work without permission, Rolling Stone has reported. Outraged social media posts were issued recently from artists including Jack Antonoff, Eve 6, and Sadie Dupuis. “Any [Bleachers] NFTs are fake,” Tweeted Jack Antonoff. “I do not believe in NFTs so anything you see associated with me isn’t real.”
The HitPiece website is apparently built on top of Spotify’s API. Before shutting down, it appeared to be offering NFTs of songs and albums from the likes of John Lennon and BTS, including photos and album artwork, according to the Internet Archive.
Like many other NFT business models, however, it’s not clear what HitPiece was selling, exactly. “This particular grift doesn’t really affect artists in that HitPiece wasn’t even selling files of the…
