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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by coldtea on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:41AM (#32562090)
A bigger problem would be that Spotify pays very little. And to have the bot "listen" to a song (to be eligible for payment) takes minutes of streaming, which turns to tons of time and a big bandwidth bill, since they'll need to do thousands of them in parallel...
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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by webmobdev on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @08:10AM (#32563641)
This is where malware run bots come into picture ... it solves a lot of problem like not having to pay for bandwidth, evading detection by distributing access to the songs among varied IP and geography, etc.
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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by dropofwill on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @11:18AM (#32566162)
They wouldn't have to actually play the songs, could just use the offline listening reporting endpoints.
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Re:An odd discovery on Spotify by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @07:53AM (#32563466)
it's obviously worthwhile for them now to do this, but sure it is an additional cost that at some point will make it not worth doing.
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