Running Down a Stapler
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> Caller: I'm a big fan, I listen to myself a lot.
> Gethard: You're a big fan of your own music? How many of the 18,000 songs you wrote do you listen to regularly?
> Caller: I made a playlist of 250 of the best, a mere 7 hours of entertainment, and I put that on random quite frequently.
> Gethard: So you have a playlist that is 7 hours long of your own music, and you often listen to it on shuffle?
> Caller: Yeah, I do, on Spotify I get half a penny while listening to myself.
He gets $.004 per play. I wonder if this is a loophole within Spotify. I recall something similar possible by a company called All Advantage in the late 90s [1]. You could run a program to keep your mouse moving and keep getting paid for watching ads while actually being away from the keyboard.