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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by jan_pike on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @12:20AM (#32560424)
That...Makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it. I guess it wasn't really apparent to me before it came to my attention like this, but making online content and artificially boosting it, so you can blend your funds within what you've obtained from ad revenue is so simple, yet so brilliant.

Makes you wonder what other media out there might be laundering schemes, too...

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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by netsharc on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @01:57AM (#32560928)
There is a shitton of crap movies in Hollywood. I wonder...

Of course Hollywood accounting is already "This movie took $100 million at the box office, we spent $98 million on 'marketing', using our own internal marketing company.".

I guess making crap Hollywood movies loses you money rather than laundering it...

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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by objclxt on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:06AM (#32560978)
> There is a shitton of crap movies in Hollywood. I wonder...

The movie doesn't need to be crap to be a product of money laundering! The Wolf of Wall Street[1] was infamously funded by money laundering (from the Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund),

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_...

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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by djmips on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:09AM (#32561871)
Wow that's a rabbit hole!

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/prosecution-tells-jur...

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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by unethical_ban on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:48AM (#32564873)
That site screams "malware delivery" or spam at the least.
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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by Melting_Harps on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:40PM (#32571175)
> That site screams "malware delivery" or spam at the least.

I was intrigued since I recall the 1MDB scam, but didn't know all the details about it so I archived it [0].

0: https://archive.ph/HuEbS

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