US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams

5 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by cdrnsf

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dclavijo

9 hours ago

Here’s what bothers me: isn’t the United States a free market? What crime did he actually commit? Using services exactly as they are offered? It turns out that now, if you take advantage of the system as it was designed and gain a financial edge, you become a criminal—but if a major corporation does it, they just get a slap on the wrist.