A guy in Bulgaria scammed $1 MILLION out of Spotify
Spotify pays around $0.004 every time someone streams a song for at least 30 seconds
So he uploaded 467 tracks that were all barely over 30 seconds
After this he bought 1,200 Spotify Premium accounts, set them to loop his playlist 24/7 and sat back
Those 1,200 bots generated 72 million streams a month, which accounted for over $400,000 in royalties from only $12,000 worth of subscriptions.
The playlists were called "Soulful Music" and "Music From The Heart"
Both made it into Spotify's global top charts and "Soulful Music" hit number 11 in the US, higher than any major label playlist at the time
Meanwhile the whole operation was showing up in Spotify's own weekly revenue reports
They sent that data to record labels every single week for months and nobody noticed it
The craziest part is none of it was illegal
The accounts were paid for with real money, real premium subscribers streamed the songs and every upload had valid copyright
When journalists reached out for comment, a Spotify spokesperson refused to even call it a scam
He only got caught because he got too successful. Breaking into the top 50 made one major label executive look twice at the charts
By the time Spotify deleted the tracks in October 2017, he had already pulled over $1 million in royalties
Years later an American named Michael Smith tried to do the same scheme with AI generated music and 10,000 bot accounts
He made $10 million in royalties but to make it work he had to buy bulk email addresses, lie directly to Spotify when they flagged him and pay for subscriptions using fake names on corporate debit cards
Those lies turned the whole operation into wire fraud
The DOJ busted him in 2024, he pleaded guilty and had to return $8 million
Same scam, different execution and a small detail changed the entire outcome
One guy became rich, the other is waiting for his sentencing
🧵 On parle pas assez du CV créatif de Mark Zuckerberg
❌ Facebook → Copié (ConnectU des frères Winklevoss, procès réglé pour 65M$)
🛒 Instagram → Acheté (1 Md$ en 2012)
🛒 WhatsApp → Acheté (19 Mds$ en 2014)
❌ Stories → Copié sur Snapchat
❌ Reels → Copié sur TikTok
❌ Marketplace → Copié sur Le Bon Coin / Craigslist
❌ Facebook Watch → Copié sur YouTube
❌ Threads → Copié sur Twitter/X
❌ Meta AI → Copié sur ChatGPT/OpenAI
❌ Channels → Copié sur Telegram
❌ Facebook Dating → Copié sur Tinder
❌ Lasso → Copié sur TikTok (tellement mauvais qu'il a été supprimé)
❌ Facebook Gaming → Copié sur Twitch (fermé aussi)
Et sa SEULE grande idée originale ?
💀 Le Metaverse → 90 milliards de $ cramés pour des avatars sans jambes et 900 utilisateurs par jour
Zuck est le meilleur copieur de la Silicon Valley.
Le seul jour où il a eu une idée à lui, ça lui a coûté plus cher que le PIB de la Croatie et que la station spatiale internationale.
People said Elon couldn’t build rockets.
He built SpaceX.
People said he couldn’t build cars.
He built Tesla.
Now they’re saying he can’t build chips.
Bernstein says Terafab costs $5 trillion.
They’re pricing 126 separate fabs at $30B each. Today’s costs. Today’s yields. Frozen in time.
But Musk isn’t building 126 fabs.
He’s building ONE building where chip design, fabrication, memory, packaging, testing, and mask production all sit under one roof.
Nobody else on Earth has this. Every chipmaker ships wafers between countries on 12-month cycles. Terafab loops it in days.
Intel just joined. $10.3B foundry loss in 2025, decades of fab experience, and they said “we’re in.”
What do the analysts know that Intel doesn’t?
Global chip output is ~20 gigawatts/year. Musk needs 1 terawatt.
50x everything on Earth combined.
TSMC can’t expand fast enough. Samsung can’t hit yields.
“We either build the Terafab, or we don’t have the chips.”
The skeptics are pricing 150 factories.
@elonmusk is building one system that makes them obsolete.
And the smartest chipmaker in America just co-signed it.
Starlink has done more than any NGO to lift people out of poverty by connecting them with a means of education and a market for their good & services via the Internet
옵티머스 개발인력 입에서 소름끼친다는 말이 나올 정도면 과연 어느 정도의 완성도일까..
일전에 옵티머스3세대 개발현장을 보고온 사람이 "세상은 테슬라가 자동차 회사라는 사실을 기억못할 것이다"라는 표현까지 사용했는데 옵티머스3세대가 공개되면 세상이 발칵 뒤집힐 것 같음.