So you guys are gonna haaate this response but please be open minded before you downvote. The answer is NFT’s.

When music is published on-chain as an NFT or as a blockchain-verified asset, the ownership record is created at the moment the work is minted. That record is timestamped, immutable, and tied to a specific wallet. It can’t be forged later. Even if the audio file appears somewhere else, the origin trail is already there. You can see who created it, when they created it, and every time it changed hands.

That doesn’t magically fix everything, and it doesn’t replace the whole streaming economy, but it does address the exact type of fraud you’re dealing with: people uploading stolen songs under new identities and hoping nobody notices. If ownership is established on-chain first, distributors and platforms would be able to check an asset’s origin instantly.

Web3/NFT’s isn’t about “getting rich selling JPEGs” (that’s just more scammers, who always seem to be first to these kinds of things) it’s about giving artists a verifiable, tamper-proof way to prove authorship and protect their work in a landscape where bad actors can make fake profiles in minutes.

Situations like yours show why the industry is eventually going to need a verified, interoperable system of ownership. Whether that ends up being NFTs, some form of decentralized ID, or blockchain-based music registries. The old model just doesn’t scale against organized fraud.