News Man who pocketed $8m using AI songs and bot streams asks for no prison time, arguing ‘no artist suffered any perceptible harm’ Michael Smith's lawyers argued that his scheme caused only "tiny, immeasurable losses" spread across millions of songwriters and artists, Billboard reported.
News RBX refiles $600M streaming-fraud lawsuit against Spotify over bot streams inflating Drake’s catalog The rapper, whose legal name is Eric Dwayne Collins, accuses Spotify of enforcing its anti-fraud rules selectively.
News Court increases prison sentence for Danish man convicted of streaming fraud The Eastern Jutland resident was convicted for artificially inflating stream counts on 689 tracks
News Boomy’s AI-generated tracks start landing back on Spotify amid growing battle against artificial streaming Boomy says it’s back in business on the prominent music streaming platform