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by username223 4473 days ago
> In my case it's more like "I wonder..." fueling innovation.

You put the wrong part in scare quotes. The word you're looking for is "arbitrage," not "innovation." Some guy figured out that Spotify pays more to send data than Amazon charges to accept and discard it. Eventually Spotify will pay someone to reject this particular scam, then to reject more sophisticated versions, then to reject legitimate songs that look a bit like scams, etc. That's just how things work.

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the quotes around "I wonder" aren't scare quotes, they're just quotes.