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Dane Benko's avatar

Okay, so, here's the other thing about this:

Johan Röhr is Swedish, as is Spotify, and his success getting onto so many Spotify playlists is largely Spotify generated, not user generated, playlists. Spotify then uses Röhr's pseudonyms as data and marketing citing HUNDREDS of successful indie artists on the service who are, actually, one. Röhr becomes a millionaire, Spotify gets to cut its compensation of other working artists worldwide:

Is this not fraud? Like I wouldn't know the law, Swedish or otherwise, but inventing Potemkin users to funnel pooled revenues back to the company rather than distributing them as royalties seems like a fairly common sense notion of fraud. If anything it should prove that the algorithm is not just cranking decisions based on total uploads and users' attention to them but specifically selecting winners.

Furthermore is Johan Röhr a real person? Does he personally know Daniel Eks?

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David Perlmutter's avatar

This is why I forego music streaming entirely. It's bullshit music being forced on entirely ignorant consumers by tech idiots who don't know their ass when it comes to ACTUAL music.

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