Spotify Sued Over "billions" of Fraudulent Drake Streams
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Spotify is being sued over allegedly fraudulent streams of Drake's music, worth 'billions', sparking discussion on the music streaming industry's handling of stream manipulation.
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phillipseamore
2 months ago
1 replyI'm always being told that Spotify pays next to nothing and musicians are starving - but somehow running a botnet to get royalties is cost effective?
elias_t
about 2 months ago
I guess even if you win 0.1 cents/day with a bot, it's just scalling afterward
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