Inside the Rise of Bots and Streaming Fraud in Music

From hip-hop to K-pop and beyond, fraudulent streams, AI tracks, and juiced charts are changing how songs are made and consumed ...
Bleeping Computer

Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots

North Carolina musician Michael Smith was indicted for collecting over $10 million in royalty payments from Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music using AI-generated songs streamed by ...
Fox Business

Man charged for using bots to stream AI-generated songs for $10M in royalties

Federal authorities hit a North Carolina man with charges arising from allegations that he fraudulently earned streaming royalties through a scheme involving bots and AI-generated songs. The man, ...
Yahoo

Lawsuit Against Spotify Claims ‘Billions’ of Drake Streams Were ‘Fraudulent’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new class action lawsuit against Spotify alleges the company has “turned a blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming” on ...
The Fader

How music distributors, bots, and streaming platforms are stopping legitimate artists from getting paid

On July 9, 2024, Devi McCallion uploaded a video titled “Help! or listen to me complain ._. (Spotify / distrokid issue).” McCallion has amassed a dedicated following and critical acclaim both as a ...
PC Gamer

Fraudster charged with $12 million in stolen royalties used 1,000 bots to stream hundreds of thousands of AI tracks billions of times

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