The band Vulfpeck made a silent album named sleepify and asked their fans to stream it while not listening to other music. Made enough money to fund a tour. Spotify change their terms because of it i believe.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 week ago
I thought about experimenting with this (Guess it is a good thing I didn’t). There are so many low effort “Lo Fi” types of streams and tracklists on Spotify and elsewhere. Who is to say my software generated garbage would be any worse than those?
There are also YouTubers who generate low effort music and ask their normal content subscribers to stream their shit on Spotify even if they aren’t legitimately listening. So are those streams fraudulent as well?
It sounds like the thing he is getting popped for is the volume of automated streams.
virku@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Snoopey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think he’s getting done for setting up the bots to listen to his own songs for billions of hours
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yea his mistake was pulling the number too much. If he would have kept a steady stream of income and not get greedy, they never would have noticed him.
futatorius@lemm.ee 1 week ago
He also would have to make sure the distribution of song plays over time looks like what would be done by actual humans. Once every 5 minutes, 24/7 is easy to detect. And there should be abandonments, interrupted sessions, etc.