Originally Posted By: rockstar_not
There's a guy who has been writing useless songs which name-drop famous people in the titles and he publishes the CDs to CDBaby, which gets it into iTunes as well as Spotify. Because of the song titles mentioning the famous folks, he gets lots of plays on Spotify.

Supposedly last year he pulled in $23,000 in play royalties from Spotify. Just wondering when the hammer will drop on him from some of the p.o.'ed famous people from which he is gaining financial gain from simply using their name. http://bdcwire.com/danvers-dude-makes-23k-musically-spamming-on-spotify/

this is a really interesting story but only as an example of an odd, one-off, unsustainable event. like you said, his story, if even true, will get the attention of those in charge and game over! but maybe this guy has a bunch of other scams to take this one's place when it runs its course! smile in the old days you had to invest in a horse, a medicine show wagon, some bottled colored water and maybe pay a couple of shills in the crowd! but with the internet...