It's interesting that the threat model also includes participants. They take into account that when a user leaves, it should be impossible for them to continue listening.
I don't think it's Spotify. Spotify already gets their cut, they have no reason to put out "fake music". This is a very well known "passive income" scheme. It's obviously real people doing it
I mean yeah, I also had an aversion to swallowing pills when I hadn't done it before. But I got used to it pretty quickly, using this method specifically. I just assumed everybody did it like this
What the fuck?