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by deltaknight 539 days ago
Matt Levine actually wrote a post about somebody who did this and got caught a while ago. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-09-09/fake-s...

The gist is that your listening hours for your subscription are pooled with everybody else’s, then artist payments are made out of ratios from that pool. That means if you subscribe and listen to music 24hrs a day, and somebody else subscribes and listens to 1hr a day, you essentially have more influence over the pool of money and so can pay out to the artist you are listening to more than you pay Spotify.