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AI Music Streaming Fraudster Sentenced to 1.5 Years in Prison for $8M Royalties Scam
Michael Smith admitted earlier this year to using bots to stream fake songs billions of times in a first-ever criminal case over streaming fraud.
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Michael Smith pleaded guilty to employing bots that generated billions of fraudulent streams of songs, resulting in a pioneering criminal conviction for streaming fraud.
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