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I feel like I’m missing something in this article. If he was taking the music but also faking the play counts with bots, how were other artists missing out?

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faltryka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The streaming service pays them out of a pool proportionally. So he basically diluted the distribution from that pool, resulting in lower payments to everyone else.

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- nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  How is that different from Spotify producing their own AI-gen music? Seems like that’s 3-4 minutes of listening that otherwise would’ve been spent listening to an artist.
  
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  - rollerbang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It’s different when a corporation does it.
    
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  - ChadGPT2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    The crime here was faking the play counts with listening bots, thus closing the loop. If an artist built a machine to play their own song a billion times to make them money, that would also be a crime, I suppose.
    
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  - faltryka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    No clue
    
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- ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That would be the missing bit! Cheers
  
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