Comment by nomilk

So long as something can be bought for x and sold for y (where y>x) there'll be an economic incentive to do so.

So instead of scalpers trying to simply get to the front of the queue, they'll be automating plays on spotify (hogging bandwidth, something spotify is already stingy with), and 'sharing' tracks with others, meaning it incentivises spam and fake activity.

Probably not a big issue to be fair, and if it only works legitimately 10% of the time it's still a win.

But if there's one company that can take a decent idea and execute poorly, it's Spotify.