FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
Feds say it's the first US criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming.
I am just impressed by the idea and execution. Just wow. Too bad he took it too far.
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Definitely an abuse of the system, but I'm struggling to see where criminal law says you can't make a bunch of fake accounts to listen to garbage music.
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In agreeing to be paid by music streaming platforms they almost certainly agreed not to do exactly this. Which makes it fraud.
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Sounds like a breach of contract, which is a civil matter.
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I think that depends on intent and amount of money involved, but I'm definitely not a lawyer.
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Its also cyber crime which is possibly why the FBI need to be involved
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Corpos commit cyber crimes against wage slaves daily... Feds don't do Jack shit about it ... I wonder why this would in the land of the Law 🤣
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Fraud is pretty broad and covers most things that deliberately misrepresent reality to take money from someone else.
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Yet advertising and billionaires exist. It's not what you do, it's what clique you're part of.
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Dont hurt the normies mate!
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From justice.gov:
SMITH, 52, of Cornelius, North Carolina, is charged with wire fraud conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and money laundering conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
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This is a ridiculous law, it might as well be called "money fraud". Justice is a bad joke.
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