Originally Posted by wankawonk

botting for false plays doesn't steal from spotify though--it steals from the artists

Spotify brings in $XXXXXX revenue from subscriptions/ads, they keep some percent of that and pay the rest to artists according to the number of plays they generate

if you use bots to generate false plays--your revenue doesn't come from spotify's cut, it comes from the artists cut. Every artist on spotify makes less money and it goes to the cheater instead.

It just makes my blood boil. I can't imagine anything more scummy. that BHW would allow it...I can't get over it.