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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by quickthrowman on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:36PM (#50012673)
Easy, (e) is fraud. The rest are legal. You can choose to not do something, advertising is analogous to convincing and advertising is legal.

Collecting money from a platform by making bots play songs you created is fraud.

Making bots listen to a song without any financial incentive is not fraud.

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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by esseph on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:48PM (#50015767)
> So how come Sam Altman & friends aren't in jail yet, but Aaron Swartz was facing life-ruining charges?

Aaron was threatening power structures, not enriching them.

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