Record producer Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He agreed to forfeit $8 ...
North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and ...
Michael Smith, a 54-year-old North Carolina man whom federal prosecutors accused of defrauding music-streaming services with AI-generated songs, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit ...
To obtain the volume of tracks needed for the scheme to work, Smith turned to AI, using it to generate hundreds of thousands of songs. Those songs were streamed by his bot accounts billions of times, ...