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enough to comb through but I guess I just don't see what is supposedly so different about any of this compared to pre-internet industry activities like the Source's shenanigans, Rolling Stone taking star-assigning away from their reviewers, Heart's manager prying DJ's with hookers/blow to play 'Baracuda' or any other example of when the business of the music business reveals itself to be just that.
The field of play (online via music-based websites) is different but the song has remained the same for long before the internet came.