[LAU] Re: Musician charged with using bots to boost streaming revenue

On 9/7/24 11:02, David W. Jones wrote: Yes, but also an exploit of a broken system. Since the streaming services, mainly Spotify, are pooling the plays and distributing income divided by total amounts of play, the system kind of encourages swindling. This is amplified by introducing limits where tracks with less than a certain amount of plays get zero pay. I believe Spotify operates with no pay for tracks with less than a thousand plays yearly, meaning that small artists are actually subsidizing the bigger. If the streaming services instead took a small amount of your subscription as admin fee and split the rest amongst the artists played by your user (Bandcamp uses a system similar to this), there would be no incentive at all for swindling. If your user plays only your music, you would almost get your money back. Best regards, Alf