It's hard to imagine anything but physical egress for that kind of volume.

50 free accounts continually streaming music rack up 20 TB in a month. So that would take about 1.5 years. Our you use 750 accounts and do it in a month.

I would say it's weird they don't rate limit accounts but probably having a device play music pretty much all the time isn't even that rare of a use case.

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kefabean 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s if they pretend to stream the music. If they are using throwaway free accounts I imagine they can download the DRM-stripped files much more quickly.

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morsch 16 hours ago | parent [-]

True, but I could see them rate limiting that much more aggressively than streaming.

	▲	sejje 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can download playlists for offline use, it'll go pretty fast. I doubt they monitor it that hard.

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monerozcash 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can probably just buy a thousand hacked spotify accounts for not much more than $1 a piece