What if the music charts you see aren’t real? What if the numbers that define success can be manufactured? We talked to Andrew, a man who has spent his career on both sides of this battle. He once profited from the loopholes in streaming platforms, but now, his job is to close them. This episode will change the way you understand music streaming platforms from now on.
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Attribution
Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.
Assembled by Tristan Ledger.
Episode artwork by odibagas.
Mixing by Proximity Sound.
Theme song created by Breakmaster Cylinder. Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp. Or listen to it on Spotify.
Transcript
[Start of recording]
JACK: I’ve always like the idea of fake it ‘til you make it, where you act like someone you want to be until you become them. This sometimes comes with imposter syndrome, but I think the antidote to that is just more experience. But how do you go from being a total beginner to confidently doing something? I often turn to the book store to help me there. But you know a book that’s always bothered me? It’s those For Dummies books, like the C Programming For Dummies, or The Complete Idiot’s Guide. Even if I don’t have a clue where to start, I would never buy one of those books because I don’t consider myself a dummy or an idiot, because I want to fake it ‘til I make it, and I don’t want to fake being a dummy. I want to be a great programmer. So, A Dummy’s Guide to Programming is not the direction I want to be going. I think what those books fail to do is they seem to target who you are now, not what you want to become, and that was their failure, at least for me.