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by kevin_thibedeau 487 days ago
Then there will be an army of bots inflating view counts.
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this seems really trivial to detect. dump current viewcounts of all VOD into a table somewhere, and then check however often you feel like to see if any of the ones with less than one view per unit of time you decide, are now getting many views.

Tell user "stop that".