Last year, Tone Deaf recounted the tale of Vulfpeck, a then-little known Swedish indie funk group who decided they were going to cheat the Spotify system by releasing an album of absolute silence.

The plan was rather ingenious. The band would release the album and then urge fans to stream it as they sleep. Spotify would do the rest of the work, depositing royalty payments into the band’s account as the streams racked up.

The band was hoping to use the funds to finance a string of free shows for their fans, but after Spotify officials discovered Vulfpeck’s plan (it wasn’t hard, everyone from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork wrote about it), they put the kibosh on their grand scheme.

It may have been the most famous case of someone rigging the Spotify system, but it certainly wasn’t the last. Tone Deaf recently wrote about a cheeky app which lets free tier users enjoy Spotify without any ads.

However, Eternify might prove the most revolutionary. That is, until Spotify higher-ups read this and deep-six it immediately. As Business Insider reports, Eternify is a Spotify hack which allows users to “stream their favourite artists forever”.

The website plays 30-second loops of music from artists, with a live counter at the bottom displaying the amount of money the listener generated for the artist. With each half-minute loop, the user can earn $US.005 for an artist.

Of course, Spotify’s terms and conditions strictly prohibit “artificially increasing play count or otherwise manipulating the Services by using a script or other automated process”. After all, every indie musician has probably had this idea at some point.

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However, Eternify is the first app to actually go ahead and do it, as far as anyone knows. The app is fuelled by Ohm & Sport, a band whose official website claims are “the world’s first band in beta”.

“We’re launching Eternify in the wake of numerous false promises of a better future for streaming: Not a single one of these announcements or apparent victories have had any meaningful impact on the vast number of small artists on whom these services depend,” the band told The Verge.

As far as Ohm & Sport are concerned, they’re just helping bands get what they’re rightfully owed in the first place. Think of them like musical Robin Hoods and instead of Sherwood Forest, their domain is the web.

However, the Sheriff of Nottingham, i.e. Spotify management, could just be sending them a cease and desist letter soon, though according to Business Insider, they’re not as furious as you might think.

“We welcome any legitimate means to help artists get their music discovered in Spotify and to be fairly compensated. With this in mind, we’re currently trying to contact Eternify to check that their app follows Spotify’s terms of use,” Spotify wrote in a statement.

Till then, you can generate royalty revenue for your artists via Eternify here.

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