Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams
by joquarky on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:34PM
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Are you fine with paying $50,000 a year to separate this person from society because he cheated some company? Are we really taking corporate personhood in this direction now?
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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams
by nemomarx on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:30PM
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Arguably he reduced the payout of real musicians by doing this, so he did harm real people too.
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams
by autoexec on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:05PM
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Careful with that line of reasoning though because artists have been hurt by spotify more than they were hurt by this guy.
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-denies-its-pl...
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/remember-spotify-fake...
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams
by nemomarx on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:28PM
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You don't have to go that far for bad stuff Spotifys done - at minimum they used pirated libraries back at their start, etc, and they've overall contributed to less payouts for artists. Kind of the Uber of music.
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams
by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:47PM
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I don’t believe that people running this kind of scam are engaging in careful moral reasoning about acceptable victims. The man who did this would surely have stolen $50,000 from my grandma if he thought he saw a clever way to get away with it.