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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by autoexec on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:05PM (#50015092)
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 (#50015243)
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.