Streaming manipulation service goes offline
According to the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), the German streaming manipulation service SP-Onlinepromotion.com has gone offline following a successful warning.
SP-Onlinepromotion.com was a widely used website that sold artificially generated likes, plays/views, comments and subscribers on Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube, enabling it to illegally manipulate actual streaming views and thereby distort competition.
In Germany, the Federal Association of the Music Industry (BVMI) and IFPI had already succeeded in 2021 in prohibiting the operator of the streaming manipulation websites likeservice24.de and likeservice24.com from generating additional plays, views and likes as a service. In 2020, netlikes.de and likesandmore.de and other similar services had to be discontinued. The music industry has also taken measures elsewhere, including in Brazil, and is working with government authorities and interfaces in many countries to prevent the operation of such services.
