Show notes
What if the music charts you see aren’t real? What if the numbers that define success can be manufactured? We talked to Andrew, a man who has spent his career on both sides of this battle. He once profited from the loopholes in streaming platforms, but now, his job is to close them. This episode will change the way you understand music streaming platforms from now on. Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker®.
Highlighted moments
you take dollars, you turn it into crypto at crypto ATMs, you pay the streaming farm operators in cryptocurrency to stream a certain amount of songs. Those songs are owned by different entities globally. So, quite literally you could move money from Colombia to Doha through the streaming service.
“someone had hacked the prison system and turned all the prison tablets into a streaming farm.”
“suppose Twitter has a way to detect when there are fake followers, right, and they automatically ban someone if they have — like 60% of their followers are fake. Well, then imagine someone gets millions of fake followers to follow Elon, and he gets kicked off for having a majority of fake followers following him.”
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