Tidal Under Criminal Investigation in Norway Over 'Faked' Streams

Re:Tidal Under Criminal Investigation in Norway Over 'Faked'... by MereInterest on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:10PM (#18906503)

You and I jointly get $10/month, to be split according to our stream counts. We each get 100 views/month, so we both take home $5/month. Now, I start lying, and saying that I am actually receiving 900 views/month. With 90% of the views, I take home $9/month, leaving only $1/month to you. I have fraudulently stolen $4/month from you.

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Re:Tidal Under Criminal Investigation in Norway Over 'Faked'... by zaroth on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:31PM (#18906720)

Thanks, this makes sense if royalty payments are a revenue share based on stream share, and not a per-stream fee.

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Re:Tidal Under Criminal Investigation in Norway Over 'Faked'... by enjikaka on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:27AM (#18910953)

Streams in the industry are payed out according to the pro-rata model, not the user-centric one. TIDAL, when being WiMP, helped with studies on this: https://musically.com/2015/08/18/user-centric-streaming-payo...

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