Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots
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STIX ID: report--7a18e400-b666-5ad4-8426-3fabec80257a
Feed Name: Bleeping Computer
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North Carolina musician Michael Smith was indicted for a large-scale streaming-fraud operation (2017–2024) that uploaded hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to major platforms and used automated bots, cloud accounts, and VPNs to produce billions of fake streams and collect over $10M–$12M in royalties; the report details his operational methods, supporting emails, and criminal charges.
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