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RobRivera · 2026-10-11T18:49:33

If that is your way of communicating criticism, you will be low in the sea of comments that I would have addressed in good faith.

iugtmkbdfil834 · 2026-10-11T18:53:01

I would advise you to re-read it. It is a surprisingly apt counter.

pazimzadeh · 2026-10-11T18:54:17

I think it's a decent point. It's a very low hanging criticism of the point being made, but to my knowledge it hasn't been countered very well yet?

RobRivera · 2026-10-11T18:45:26

smokes cigarette

Life, eh?

RobRivera · 2026-10-11T15:35:12

You should take this up with someone in the org you trust

RobRivera · 2026-10-09T21:23:42

Prickly

RobRivera · 2026-10-09T00:20:27

>open the door

>get on the floor

>walk the dinosaur

RobRivera · 2026-10-09T00:18:25

Can someone give me the tl:dr, I lost track after the title /s

(Adhd joke hehe/no hehe)

RobRivera · 2026-10-08T21:03:11

Llllllllllllol?

RobRivera · 2026-10-08T20:50:43

They replaced the old space jam website with a boring href to a yt of the trailer :(

https://www.spacejam.com/

easton · 2026-10-08T20:52:58

It’s still there if you close that out: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

hypercube33 · 2026-10-08T22:34:37

I cant believe they've done this. They didnt even use iframes.

1-6 · 2026-10-09T06:27:15

It should be trivial to reauthor .swf content to modern web standards.

https://github.com/sv1sjp/flash-swf-to-html5-toolkit

Andrex · 2026-10-09T15:14:18

Macromedia Flash 1.0 was released the same year as the Space Jam website, I don't think it used .SWFs. In fact I don't remember .SWFs being common until 2002-2003 (but that's my biased viewpoint, since that's when I discovered Newgrounds.)

hahn-kev · 2026-10-09T10:43:49

I get a secure connection failure. Maybe it's for the best

RobRivera · 2026-10-08T20:46:02

[Scoff, Scoff]

RobRivera · 2026-10-08T20:12:41

He is not guilt of using AI to create songs.

He is guilty of creating a bot farm to stream his music, to increase his user count to earn royalties, which is fraud.

kurmouk · 2026-10-09T01:00:59

He is still defrauding the streaming platform. It is like creating a userbase just to get investments in your company.

mrheosuper · 2026-10-09T03:54:07

If that "created" userbase give you the similar profit of "real" userbase, i dont see what's wrong.

zbentley · 2026-10-09T12:10:23

It wasn’t giving Spotify similar profit, though. Their subscription pricing assumes both a) ads and b) that on average listeners won’t listen more than a certain amount, and will listen relatively broadly such that a single artist isn’t disproportionately rewarded (and thus lots of different artists find it lucrative to be on the platform, increasing its appeal).

In short, this isn’t a “cool infinite money hack” whereby you can pay a subscription fee and make it back with dividends as an artist. Instead, it’s https://xkcd.com/1494/

RobRivera · 2026-10-09T12:42:05

You need help understanding why spotify paying a man for fake users isn't being defrauded?

nomilk · 2026-10-09T06:06:29

Didn't reddit famously do this.

rebolek · 2026-10-09T06:23:02

If he created a startup to do the exactly same thing, he would be a millionaire.

RobRivera · 2026-10-09T12:43:11

Matter of factly, if he did create a bot farm for hire, and NOT get paid for streaming, but paid just to scale the bots FOR other people, yes lol

genxy · 2026-10-09T16:07:24

That startup exists already it is an A16Z thing.

kennywinker · 2026-10-09T06:35:50

Or like streaming artists music to users while not paying the artists.

fennecbutt · 2026-10-10T09:33:24

So just like when Tinder etc create fake profiles to lure paying str8 males in?

We have a "it's okay if the job creatoooors do it" problem in society atm imo.

randyrand · 2026-10-09T00:15:08

A stretch IMO. They were are all real paid users, just “agentic” bot users.

Cytobit · 2026-10-11T17:24:41

They can't be both real AND bots. Get a clue.