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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by whstl on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:27PM (#50012555)
> And the Honey extension replacing / injecting referral codes?

Fraud in larger scale and using other people's computers.

Was it ever prosecuted with the same vigour?

It's a corporation so I'm gonna bet no.

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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by JumpCrisscross on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:33AM (#50016381)
> Was it ever prosecuted with the same vigour?

A class-action lawsuit is "still being fought at the pleading stage" [1]. The way this often goes is prosecutors will watch the discovery in that case to decide if anyone committed a crime.

[1] https://openclassactions.com/lawsuits/paypal-honey-affiliate...

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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by whstl on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:41AM (#50018230)
So there was no criminal prosecution, just a lawsuit.
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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by JumpCrisscross on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:09PM (#50025985)
> way this often goes is prosecutors will watch the discovery

>> there was no criminal prosecution, just a lawsuit

Like, come on. (This reminds me of the folks on HN confidently concluding Elizabeth Holmes wouldn’t see the inside of a jail all the way through sentencing.)

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