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Whose loss is it to inflate a stream count?
by zaroth 8y ago
Whose loss is it to inflate a stream count?
- MereInterest 8y agoYou and I jointly get $10/month, to be split according to our stream counts. We each get 100 views/month, so we both take home $5/month. Now, I start lying, and saying that I am actually receiving 900 views/month. With 90% of the views, I take home $9/month, leaving only $1/month to you. I have fraudulently stolen $4/month from you.
- zaroth 8y agoThanks, this makes sense if royalty payments are a revenue share based on stream share, and not a per-stream fee.
- enjikaka 8y agoStreams in the industry are payed out according to the pro-rata model, not the user-centric one. TIDAL, when being WiMP, helped with studies on this: https://musically.com/2015/08/18/user-centric-streaming-payouts-artists/ https://musically.com/2015/08/18/user-centric-streaming-payo...
- askver 8y agoIf you and your buddies own the service, and you order the nerds over in Norway/Northpole to inflate the play counts of you and your buddies's music so that you don't have to pay other randos so much money: all of the other artists.