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I wonder if those tracks have actually been played or if someone just found a way to game the play counters. Lesson for anyone who ponders the idea of open mone
by usrusr 8y ago
I wonder if those tracks have actually been played or if someone just found a way to game the play counters. Lesson for anyone who ponders the idea of open monetization models (the every-popular vision of giving X per month and having it automatically split up and distributed to creators proportionally to actual consumption): there will be bad actors trying to cheat.
PS: why is your username so perfectly on topic?
- HelenePhisher 8y agoHaha, yeah, it really is! ;) The other one is a good question as well. Spotify pays out when a song has been listened to for at least 30 seconds. This has been abused in the past as well: https://qz.com/1212330/a-bulgarian-scheme-scammed-spotify-for-1-million-without-breaking-a-single-law/ https://qz.com/1212330/a-bulgarian-scheme-scammed-spotify-fo... The article says it is not clear if the fraudsters abused existing user accounts or set up a farm. But apparently, the songs have been played. They all were exactly 30 seconds long - this is the minimum play time for a song to qualify for a payout.
- usrusr 8y ago> They all were exactly 30 seconds Talk about easy to spot! Maybe the defensive team is deliberately keeping their countermeasures low-profile (don't block anything except payout) to make it harder for attackers to iteratively adapt? Similar to the way shadowbanning is magnitudes more effective than banning.