171: Melody Fraud
Darknet Diaries
Jack Rhysider
4.9 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | I've always liked the idea of fake it till you make it, or you act like someone you want to be until you become them. |
| 0:06.4 | This sometimes comes with imposter syndrome. |
| 0:09.0 | But I think the antidote to that is just more experience. |
| 0:12.7 | But how do you go from being a total beginner to confidently doing something? |
| 0:17.3 | I often turn to the bookstore to help me there. |
| 0:19.5 | But you know a book that's always bothered me? |
| 0:21.6 | It's those for dummies books, like the C programming for dummies, or the complete idiot's guide. |
| 0:27.7 | Even if I don't have a clue where to start, I would never buy one of those books because I don't |
| 0:32.4 | consider myself a dummy or an idiot because I want to fake it till I make it and I don't want to fake being a dummy. |
| 0:37.3 | I want to be a great programmer. So a dummy's guide to programming is not the direction I want to be |
| 0:42.0 | going. I think what those books failed to do is they seem to target who you are now, not what |
| 0:47.6 | you want to become. And that was their failure, at least for me. I've bought tons of how to books, |
| 0:53.0 | but I will never buy one of those books. |
| 0:56.0 | To me, the key to success is in the aspiration. I would instantly buy books that were titled |
| 1:01.8 | How to Be an Amazing C-programmer, because that is what I want to become. And the book could |
| 1:08.2 | contain the exact same words as the other book that's C programming for |
| 1:11.4 | dummies, but it would have an entirely different impact on me. Every time I saw the title, |
| 1:16.8 | I'd feel like I'm becoming more and more like the person I want to be, an amazing programmer. |
| 1:22.1 | And that would give me that false sense of greatness, which is exactly what it's like to fake it till you make it. |
| 1:28.7 | Because it's not about who you are today. |
| 1:30.7 | It's about who you aspire to be tomorrow. |
| 1:33.1 | It's about embracing the journey of transformation and allowing your actions to shape your destiny. |
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