Given how little spotify gives to artists, I can’t imagine this being a cost effective way to launder your money at all.
Also with an app you just buy it. If the app is like 10 euros that’s pretty fast. But with Spotify you need to listen to streams for hours and hours, it’s fucking slow.
I’m pretty sure nobody is actually listening to the songs… they would just be playing them in an empty room. Probably with a bunch of devices playing the songs at once.
I understand, but even than playing a song is much more effort (time consuming) than buying an app. It’s just super inefficiënt.
This is such nonsense. The gangs would be losing something like 90% or more of their money in the process. The only ‘proof’ stated in the article is a bunch of unverified claims by anonymous sources.
This scheme doesn’t sound very plausible indeed, given the low payout artists get from Spotify.
Or maybe these gangs are just experimenting new ways to launder money, and haven’t figured it out yet.
