Spotify errs again, being that they’re again late for the party. Last year they announced that they were going to penalize artists that got their streams from bad actors. But they were complicit in those fake streams, because Spotify was monetizing those fake streams. And there was no way artists could identify those bad actors.
Well Spotify is finally putting a bandage on that despicable oversight. They announced a half-assed solution. Instead of creating processes to weed out spam user accounts, they slap up a web page where artists can report bad actors.
I suppose this is a better solution than not doing anything at all; like they’ve done for the past year. But they probably don’t have a procedure to actually do something about the reports they’re about to receive. The bottom line is Spotify is benefiting financially from the current fucked up mess they’ve created.
