All HitPiece is saying is “Give NFTs a chance.” More specifically, give NFTs that steal intellectual property directly from some of the biggest names and companies in the entertainment industry a chance. Billed via their Twitter as offering, “One of One NFTs of all your favorite songs,” HitPiece didn’t seem to be selling actual digital music files, per se, but they were offering up images for individual songs by major artists alongside recognizable themes from shows like Pokémon and Star Wars Rebels.
Spoiler alert: this did not go over well. Presumably after their email inbox crashed under the weight of thousands of “Cease and Desist” letters, HitPiece posted a (rather shade-laden) message to social media yesterday and scrubbed their website of all content. “Clearly we have struck a nerve and are very eager to create the ideal experience for music fans,” begins the tweet. “To be clear, artists get paid when digital good are sold on HitPiece.”
