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The system says it will pay you every time a person streams your song to listen to it. That's not what happened.
by bena 2y ago
The 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!