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I think what OP is asking is, the "system" says we will pay you money for every download of your song from our system. He automated the song download process at
by itake 2y ago
I think what OP is asking is, the "system" says we will pay you money for every download of your song from our system. He automated the song download process at scale.
- bena 2y agoThe system says it will pay you every time a person streams your song to listen to it. That's not what happened.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoGuess it depends on the wording (hence the lawsuit). It's an open secret that so many "views" on such platforms are in fact inorganic. That's why the internet been ruined by trackers to try and reassure the poor ad companies can prove humans are looking at ads (i imagine as AI rises this sentiment becomes less relevant). This is definitely the highest profile case I've seen of this, though.
- itake 2y agoHe, a person, streamed the songs. I don't know if this person played the song over a speaker or not that he was able to listen to.
- Optimal_Persona 2y agoMaybe if he had formed a shell corporation around his fake listeners, that would have been OK because according to the US Supreme Court, corps are peeps!
- renewiltord 2y agoYeah in the sense that the airline says that it’ll fly you in the air and the 9/11 hijackers just decided they’d do that themselves for a bit so why prosecute Bin Laden? It turns out that the other bits of the deal also matter.
- itake 2y agoWas Bin Laden prosecuted? I thought he was just executed.
- renewiltord 2y agoWell they prosecuted war against him.