always report your taxes. Always. Even when I was a server, I reported 100% of my taxes don’t ever play around with the government. They are more powerful than you and they said the rules even if you’re an anarchist, you gotta follow the damn rules.
@@TsarFrancisDrake So is every music label. If you think they don't use a massive amount of bottling and fake listens to grow their artists then you are delusional. I've worked in a tangential field for a long time and this stuff happens at every major company involved in promoting literally anything.
@@TsarFrancisDrakeso he was smart. People have been faking the plays for years. He just did it way to much. To the point of 10mil. 2mil he most likely wouldn't have gotten caught.
@@ahhyesstoinks4058 I worked for a company that helps anyone (but particularly musicians and indie game companies) to find an audience. Usually that involves working with influencers and niche communities to grow an organic fanbase. However my previous boss is pretty shady. He got me and my colleagues to do the “organic work” ie traditional growth methods, while he used grey / dark hat marketplaces to buy bots / click farms / verified accounts for various services (forums, Steam, Amazon, etc) so he can influence the public to like or dislike a product based on client needs. I think it’s always better to build an organic audience so I started my own business that doesn’t use shady methods and we’re doing pretty well.
... It is... Common Biblical first name, common surname derived from the common profession of smithing when surnames were invented... Could be worse though You could be Bob Baker
Everyone: wow! Imagine making millions of dollars while adding absolutely no value to the world! 😠 Fortune 500 CEOs: *nervous laughter* yeah... Imagine...
@@compassrose1466And? People learn by listening to stuff other people have made, you have been trained by other peoples art, i dont se how thats any different. Edit: Guess im an AI bro now
@@compassrose1466 If a person pays for AI bot and AI bot has paid for data which is other people's work then he has the right to copy it because others data is included in that.
Aside from the AI Generation that's -technically- copyright infringement but there aren't laws for it YET, abusing of the system with automated software im pretty sure it's against a lot of platforms TOS
@@h4kbenjamin i don't really know the details, but i think banning is is the first thing but yeah as he said he could be ruled guilty of scamming the platform
@@txcavi Well, no. No laws means that they can't put you in jail, but that's doesn't mean what you're doing is correct and everyone should do it ^^ And there are no laws because it's a new thing and people haven't yet decided on it, but they will .
hear this cut and past from wiki might help History Artificial intelligence finds its beginnings in music with the transcription problem: accurately recording a performance into musical notation as it is played. Père Engramelle's schematic of a "piano roll", a mode of automatically recording note timing and duration in a way which could be easily transcribed to proper musical notation by hand, was first implemented by German engineers J.F. Unger and J. Hohlfield in 1752.[6] In 1957, the ILLIAC I (Illinois Automatic Computer) produced the "Illiac Suite for String Quartet", a completely computer-generated piece of music. The computer was programmed to accomplish this by composer Lejaren Hiller and mathematician Leonard Isaacson.[5]: v-vii In 1960, Russian researcher Rudolf Zaripov published worldwide first paper on algorithmic music composing using the Ural-1 computer.[7] In 1965, inventor Ray Kurzweil developed software capable of recognizing musical patterns and synthesizing new compositions from them. The computer first appeared on the quiz show I've Got a Secret.[8] By 1983, Yamaha Corporation's Kansei Music System had gained momentum, and a paper was published on its development in 1989. The software utilized music information processing and artificial intelligence techniques to essentially solve the transcription problem for simpler melodies, although higher-level melodies and musical complexities are regarded even today as difficult deep-learning tasks, and near-perfect transcription is still a subject of research.[6][9] In 1997, an artificial intelligence program named Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI) appeared to outperform a human composer at the task of composing a piece of music to imitate the style of Bach.[10] EMI would later become the basis for a more sophisticated algorithm called Emily Howell, named for its creator. In 2002, the music research team at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, led by French composer and scientist François Pachet, designed the Continuator, an algorithm uniquely capable of resuming a composition after a live musician stopped.[11] Emily Howell would continue to make advancements in musical artificial intelligence, publishing its first album From Darkness, Light in 2009.[12] Since then, many more pieces by artificial intelligence and various groups have been published. In 2010, Iamus became the first AI to produce a fragment of original contemporary classical music, in its own style: "Iamus' Opus 1". Located at the Universidad de Malága (Malága University) in Spain, the computer can generate a fully original piece in a variety of musical styles.[13][5]: 468-481 August 2019, a large dataset consisting of 12,197 MIDI songs, each with their lyrics and melodies (github.com/yy1lab/Lyrics-Conditioned-Neural-Melody-Generation), was created to investigate the feasibility of neural melody generation from lyrics using a deep conditional LSTM-GAN method. With progress in generative AI, models capable of creating complete musical compositions (including lyrics) from a simple text description have begun to emerge. Two notable web applications in this field are Suno AI, launched in December 2023, and Udio, which followed in April 2024.[14] so as you can read AI music is nothing new
AI has been here since the 90s , LLMs are new but they're just broken and are self harming each other, humans want to make a new form of intelligence since forever in aim that the intelligence that is smarter than them can be controlled for their benefit, which is just dreaming that new info will come out of nowhere or they will by accident make something but that won't and can't have, so unless we stopped being lazy and do some actually working, we are just losing money on a scam
@j33ms70 No, I'm salty that ethical business practices will never be enough to turn an individual into a key power, thus guaranteeing that those with the most authority and influence on this planet are exclusively the ones who've consciously chosen to give up any ounce of humanity they might've been born with. You're pathetic because you're not good enough at being terrible to catch up to the big leagues. I'm pathetic because I don't have the energy to trample over everything in my way in order to achieve goals that'll only make me as happy as the people who work for me are miserable. We're not the same, and when you die after knowing you would've taken every chance to be somebody, only to never be given it, I'll be dead knowing I never would've exploited others for money
His mistake was not quitting while he was ahead. Imagine taking the first 100-200 million and booking it to somewhere that has no extradition treaty with the US. Could live like royalty for the rest of his life.
Quitting when you are ahead doesn't necessarily mean jail free. It depends how angry you made someone that they make it their life mission to find you and bring you to justice.
This is FUCJING ridiculous. How is exploiting an algorithm illegal?!?! If anything Spotify and the other streaming platforms should be held liable for being unable to stop something like this from happening. I doubt he can actually catch a charge
Doubt he'll ever be convicted. If what you said is true nothing he did is criminally illegal. He may have violated ToS on a platform, but those are civil penalties if caught.
I just realized - in 2017 AI music was absolutely dogshit. Totally unlistenable. It got better in last two years but I'm surprised nobody caught on earlier.
Honestly this is a genius hustle. This dude isnt s grifter, he's just a AI record label. Music by AIs, for AIs. From a certain perspective music companies knocking him for doing this is almost hypocritical as this is exactly how the music industry functions for human intelligence. I really hope he recites what I just wrote in court because I'd love to see the legal system handle that philosophical curve ball
He won't face 20 years. If it's his first legal offense it'll be fines, community service, and probation. MAYBE 2-3 years at a branch. If he's smart he saved up the money with a trusted family member, like his mother or father so he has no legal funds and he can still keep his money.
I really wish Google, OpenAI, and all these other giant corporations that are using LLM’s trained on untold amounts of copyrighted and user generated personal data would also face serious charges and prison time…maybe then these companies would stop and ask if they should do something, rather then if they can…
The record companies and theur publishers have been doing this for decades. Back in the day they did it with fake sales numbers and boosted radio play, & otherwise artificial success. Now they do it through streaming numbers, plays, downloads and comments. Some artists really arent actually as famous and successful as we have been lead to believe. They've been artificially boosted up in the algorithms. Not to mention all the other awful things record company owners, their labels, and publishers are doing to their artists. They often want all the rights to their music and give them a bit of change in comparison to what they would have made, by owning all their music.
If they would only do so much research to see where the money goes that politicians spend on stuff for people.. Like paying 50k for a drinking fountain and seeing a re-used fountain fron a school
He got busted because he couldn’t stop himself from BRAGGING about his scam. Honestly it’s the best scam I’ve heard in a while. But it’s sad to see him get busted the same way a child would. Keep your damn mouth shut people.
Since I learnt that T-pain made more from 2 years of streaming on twitch than his entire music career. It really makes it hard for me to find sympathy for the people who run the music industry.
has zero to do with the intellectual property rights. It is just about him creating Bots to make it seem like millions of people were listening to his music. Which All of these big companies do Themselves so WTF?
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> Infinite money glitch
> Look inside
> Fraud
This quote is by random white TH-cam
that's how many "infinite money glitches" work
always fraud innit...
Wires
Tiktokers: *Laughs in Chase ATM fraud*
When Twitter or Spotify does this they get investment. When a regular person does this they get jail
the rich: business
Everyone else: fraud
They weren't sharing the pie lol
Yeah. It'd be nice if the £BI put this much effort into auditing Wells Fargo executives as well.
always report your taxes. Always. Even when I was a server, I reported 100% of my taxes don’t ever play around with the government. They are more powerful than you and they said the rules even if you’re an anarchist, you gotta follow the damn rules.
@@jordonm5675holy skibidi toilet, don't report me for hiding the 5 cents from the IRC last year or i will be a goner
Oh so when Spotify does it its fine, applauded even. But when a random person does it, "it's fraud".
Just like with stocks. Hedgefunds ok. Poor people bad. 😂
Pretty much
Spotify does what exactly
@@JoeBleaux69 Use A.I. for its own unethical means.
@@SirRigbyBaconKaiser ok thanks but how exactly does it do that ?
“So what are you in for?”
“I made robots make music and then made other robots listen to that music until I got rich.”
Robots: “You monster…”
@@Parhelion-XVIII Portal!
And thus began the robo war....
Response from fellow inmate: "Oh yeah? No $hit... 🤔 What can you build to help me escape?"
"Did we just become best friends?"
"Yup!"
*giggles*
Robbing the poor = nobody bats an eye
Robbing the rich = 20 years in prison
Police were only created to protect the rich not to serve the poor.
I'd hardly call this robbing. Closer to fraud.
Poor can't hire good lawyers...
@@Vidar93how so?
"keep this up for 7 years..." Oh around 2014.
"Since 2017" What the f-
Time flies... we get old..
That's understandable, Covid stole like 3 years of our lives
oh right in the knees
I think time has been standing still since 2020 (in our minds at least)
@@nathanottreyI agree, and I’ve been saying the same thing. The last 4 years have been strange, like time can’t really move forward somehow.
His mistake was not being a big company, the goverment or not paying the right pockets for the right to do so.
BINGO
Dude was buying music and posting it and getting the revenue, just like every music label ever.
He was faking the plays. He wasn't arrested for ai music, but for botting the listens to that music.
@@TsarFrancisDrake So is every music label. If you think they don't use a massive amount of bottling and fake listens to grow their artists then you are delusional.
I've worked in a tangential field for a long time and this stuff happens at every major company involved in promoting literally anything.
@@blindmownoh do elaborate good sir i would like the tea that you have
@@TsarFrancisDrakeso he was smart. People have been faking the plays for years. He just did it way to much. To the point of 10mil. 2mil he most likely wouldn't have gotten caught.
@@ahhyesstoinks4058 I worked for a company that helps anyone (but particularly musicians and indie game companies) to find an audience.
Usually that involves working with influencers and niche communities to grow an organic fanbase. However my previous boss is pretty shady.
He got me and my colleagues to do the “organic work” ie traditional growth methods, while he used grey / dark hat marketplaces to buy bots / click farms / verified accounts for various services (forums, Steam, Amazon, etc) so he can influence the public to like or dislike a product based on client needs.
I think it’s always better to build an organic audience so I started my own business that doesn’t use shady methods and we’re doing pretty well.
Oh…
Guess my name is generic😢
shout-out to all the michael smiths in the chat ❤
... It is... Common Biblical first name, common surname derived from the common profession of smithing when surnames were invented... Could be worse though You could be Bob Baker
i hate micaelsmiths
Your name is my default go-to for every burner email and account I make.
XD odds of finding is a micael smith is never 0
Everyone: wow! Imagine making millions of dollars while adding absolutely no value to the world! 😠
Fortune 500 CEOs: *nervous laughter* yeah... Imagine...
What?
@@cirkin1932don't even bother it's these anti capitalist that yap when anything above millions is mentioned
stockholders, money lenders, and landlords.....
Bitcoin says 'hold my beer'
20 years for ai music fraud? That’s ridiculous
Botting royalty money from AI music with AI Bots is considered fraud
your right it should be 50 years
He should be under the jail lmao not because it's heinous but because he's a bum
Yet no room in jail for literal criminals causing physical harm and property destruction to individuals
Rapists often get less.
WE BREAKING THE LAW WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️
Then
Breaking the World, together
🗣️🗣️🗣️WE'RE CLENCHING OUR FIST WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️
@@kishorekumar6966 KOWASEEEE~🎶🎸🎸🎹
WOW, BREAKIN’ THE LAW 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥 BREAKIN‘ THE WORLD
SOMETHING SOMETHING TENDERNESS
KIRIISAKE NO TENDERNESSSSSO
Judas Priest
Spoiler(prob not without context) 👇
BREAKIN' OUR HEARTS 😢
@@AngelCopout 😢
You know what I'm with this guy. For all the flack AI gets, this guy did nothing wrong.
Ai music uses other samples music to make the music. It’s all stolen work out into a generator to MAKE AI MUSIC.
@@compassrose1466And? People learn by listening to stuff other people have made, you have been trained by other peoples art, i dont se how thats any different.
Edit: Guess im an AI bro now
@@Latelaciapeople learn how to make new styles and ideas, AI copies what already exists. Common AI fanboy L
@@compassrose1466
If a person pays for AI bot and AI bot has paid for data which is other people's work then he has the right to copy it because others data is included in that.
@Latelacia I do train on 10 terabyte of data just to draw 🥶🥶🥶
What crime has he committed? Engaging with Spotify the same way everyone else does?
Aside from the AI Generation that's -technically- copyright infringement but there aren't laws for it YET,
abusing of the system with automated software im pretty sure it's against a lot of platforms TOS
@@LibrocreatesL2so spotify can only kick him off the platform?
@@h4kbenjamin i don't really know the details, but i think banning is is the first thing
but yeah as he said he could be ruled guilty of scamming the platform
@LibrocreatesL2 can't be technically if there are NO laws. No laws no wrong doing.
@@txcavi Well, no. No laws means that they can't put you in jail, but that's doesn't mean what you're doing is correct and everyone should do it ^^
And there are no laws because it's a new thing and people haven't yet decided on it, but they will .
He did exactly what he was able to do with the equipment he was supplied from an environment that was created for him to live survive and thriving in
"Keep this up for 7 years"
"Just AI generated an entire music career"
Something dosent line up here
hear this cut and past from wiki might help
History
Artificial intelligence finds its beginnings in music with the transcription problem: accurately recording a performance into musical notation as it is played. Père Engramelle's schematic of a "piano roll", a mode of automatically recording note timing and duration in a way which could be easily transcribed to proper musical notation by hand, was first implemented by German engineers J.F. Unger and J. Hohlfield in 1752.[6]
In 1957, the ILLIAC I (Illinois Automatic Computer) produced the "Illiac Suite for String Quartet", a completely computer-generated piece of music. The computer was programmed to accomplish this by composer Lejaren Hiller and mathematician Leonard Isaacson.[5]: v-vii In 1960, Russian researcher Rudolf Zaripov published worldwide first paper on algorithmic music composing using the Ural-1 computer.[7]
In 1965, inventor Ray Kurzweil developed software capable of recognizing musical patterns and synthesizing new compositions from them. The computer first appeared on the quiz show I've Got a Secret.[8]
By 1983, Yamaha Corporation's Kansei Music System had gained momentum, and a paper was published on its development in 1989. The software utilized music information processing and artificial intelligence techniques to essentially solve the transcription problem for simpler melodies, although higher-level melodies and musical complexities are regarded even today as difficult deep-learning tasks, and near-perfect transcription is still a subject of research.[6][9]
In 1997, an artificial intelligence program named Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI) appeared to outperform a human composer at the task of composing a piece of music to imitate the style of Bach.[10] EMI would later become the basis for a more sophisticated algorithm called Emily Howell, named for its creator.
In 2002, the music research team at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, led by French composer and scientist François Pachet, designed the Continuator, an algorithm uniquely capable of resuming a composition after a live musician stopped.[11]
Emily Howell would continue to make advancements in musical artificial intelligence, publishing its first album From Darkness, Light in 2009.[12] Since then, many more pieces by artificial intelligence and various groups have been published.
In 2010, Iamus became the first AI to produce a fragment of original contemporary classical music, in its own style: "Iamus' Opus 1". Located at the Universidad de Malága (Malága University) in Spain, the computer can generate a fully original piece in a variety of musical styles.[13][5]: 468-481 August 2019, a large dataset consisting of 12,197 MIDI songs, each with their lyrics and melodies (github.com/yy1lab/Lyrics-Conditioned-Neural-Melody-Generation), was created to investigate the feasibility of neural melody generation from lyrics using a deep conditional LSTM-GAN method.
With progress in generative AI, models capable of creating complete musical compositions (including lyrics) from a simple text description have begun to emerge. Two notable web applications in this field are Suno AI, launched in December 2023, and Udio, which followed in April 2024.[14]
so as you can read AI music is nothing new
Ai has been around for a long while its the ease of access nowadays is easier.
Kid spotted 😂😂😂
AI has been here since the 90s , LLMs are new but they're just broken and are self harming each other, humans want to make a new form of intelligence since forever in aim that the intelligence that is smarter than them can be controlled for their benefit, which is just dreaming that new info will come out of nowhere or they will by accident make something but that won't and can't have, so unless we stopped being lazy and do some actually working, we are just losing money on a scam
ChatGPT itself has been around at least that long. 2017 was the year chat bots got the world's attention.
Michael Smith is the most A.I. name I've ever heard!
Bro has the name every Indian scammer uses
HOW IS THAT ILLEGAL
im 100% with the guy here
Glad we’re catching the real dangerous criminals
Lol😂 he needs to pay for being smart.
The guys a hero, the streaming apps are the villain in this story
I'm confused. Who did he defraud? Which platform did he upload to?
According to forbes Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and TH-cam Music
He used bots to listen to his music to make money
@@PlantManCheeseHead So what all big music people and Spotify do to people who paid to have songs botted
Same way the radio and record labels FORCED pay for play and call it Top 40.
Billionaire lovers would suck this man off for being a hard worker
Ur just salty that you didnt think of it
@j33ms70 No, I'm salty that ethical business practices will never be enough to turn an individual into a key power, thus guaranteeing that those with the most authority and influence on this planet are exclusively the ones who've consciously chosen to give up any ounce of humanity they might've been born with. You're pathetic because you're not good enough at being terrible to catch up to the big leagues. I'm pathetic because I don't have the energy to trample over everything in my way in order to achieve goals that'll only make me as happy as the people who work for me are miserable. We're not the same, and when you die after knowing you would've taken every chance to be somebody, only to never be given it, I'll be dead knowing I never would've exploited others for money
@@nahlies2382 aint reading allat lil bro
@@j33ms70 Ofc you will not read that, we don't expect you to have long attention span.
@@j33ms70 Doubt you'd have the intention span anyways. Let alone the vocabulary
His mistake was not quitting while he was ahead. Imagine taking the first 100-200 million and booking it to somewhere that has no extradition treaty with the US. Could live like royalty for the rest of his life.
Quitting when you are ahead doesn't necessarily mean jail free. It depends how angry you made someone that they make it their life mission to find you and bring you to justice.
The entire music industry does this, it's only fraud when you are not part of the industry.
"found bug in game"
"nothing"
"found bug in real life"
"jail"
Wow so deep, you deserve a nobell prize
"For the unspeakable crime of making business owners lose faith in online advertising I sentence for about 1/3rd of your lifespan in jail"
Shouldn't be a federal crime, or at least a crime that requires a sentence.
"allegedly" ? "Legendly" ✅
That dude is a genius.
Glad someone said it. I thought the same thing.
I don't even see how that's illegal
As I see it as being smart.
Yakuza memes are getting crazy
I don’t blame him
"most generic name"
My second guess was smith when you said that, lol
Editor is going ham with Yakuza. I just finished singing Tonight for a karaoke contest. My competition were Filipinos so naturally I lost.
This is FUCJING ridiculous. How is exploiting an algorithm illegal?!?! If anything Spotify and the other streaming platforms should be held liable for being unable to stop something like this from happening. I doubt he can actually catch a charge
yakuza 0 mentioned
Michael smith is also ai generated
I don't see it as illegal
Made a whole documentary about this !❤
I’m not seeing a crime?
Love streaming services, they pay my favourite artists pennies and billionaires and this guy in the millions. 😍
The average child molester get 14-15 years of jail time and when it comes to money it's 20 years, huh?
If he lowers it to 10, that's still worth it if he keeps the money. Dude will probably use his money to find a way to lower it to 5 though
That's assuming he keeps the money
Powers that be are just pissed because he gamed the game.
Profiting from AI generations: 👍
Botting to cheat people out of money: 😡
Doubt he'll ever be convicted. If what you said is true nothing he did is criminally illegal. He may have violated ToS on a platform, but those are civil penalties if caught.
Where’s the crime? Don’t hate the player. 😂😂😂
People: A.I is BS it could nevere make you rich 😂
Meanwhile A.I :
how is this wrong, he sold songs he purchased, customers rightfully purchased it after verifying its quality
First guy to figure out how to use a loophole doesn't go to jail. The second guy to try it does lol
Government is just mad they didn't think of it first lol
I just realized - in 2017 AI music was absolutely dogshit. Totally unlistenable. It got better in last two years but I'm surprised nobody caught on earlier.
Feel like this is a result of the system rather than the individual.
But when millionaires do this it's completely legal XD
Ppl cant even scam bih companies anymore 😔
I mssed the part where they explain what exactly was illegal
Sounds like he's an artist. Since when is that a crime?
😂
This sounds like a question on a gcse maths paper
Honestly this is a genius hustle. This dude isnt s grifter, he's just a AI record label. Music by AIs, for AIs. From a certain perspective music companies knocking him for doing this is almost hypocritical as this is exactly how the music industry functions for human intelligence. I really hope he recites what I just wrote in court because I'd love to see the legal system handle that philosophical curve ball
damn 20 years in jail for some robot music?!
It’s good that this type of AI bot art scam is illegal
On Epstein's list: 0 years
Make robots listen to bad music: 20 years
What if our favorite music is ai generated 😦
Pop music probably already has been for a while now. It is so generic and bland, and it's mostly all the same, that it may as well be AI.
As with visual artworks, we can usually tell when a song is AI or not :)
I don't know where the problem is tbh.
Calm Baseball, a song name i want to see for myself
Im so early! Im a big fan!
So when do they arrest the adobe board of directors?
There is no crime committed.
Congress/senators launder $$$ all the time. Why the double standards?
Game is the game, don't blame the player blame the game
Not one Human needed. Sad!
Depends if they actually resemble human songs strongly and actually make sense, if they don't that's all rightfully his money.
He won't face 20 years. If it's his first legal offense it'll be fines, community service, and probation. MAYBE 2-3 years at a branch.
If he's smart he saved up the money with a trusted family member, like his mother or father so he has no legal funds and he can still keep his money.
Bruh he's just self sustaining himself I don't blame him.
It is illegal to make bots listen to your songs? The more you know 🌠
How is this even a crime, seems more like a loophole no one thought about, and now the government is mad they didn’t know or get their cut.
I really wish Google, OpenAI, and all these other giant corporations that are using LLM’s trained on untold amounts of copyrighted and user generated personal data would also face serious charges and prison time…maybe then these companies would stop and ask if they should do something, rather then if they can…
The record companies and theur publishers have been doing this for decades. Back in the day they did it with fake sales numbers and boosted radio play, & otherwise artificial success. Now they do it through streaming numbers, plays, downloads and comments.
Some artists really arent actually as famous and successful as we have been lead to believe. They've been artificially boosted up in the algorithms. Not to mention all the other awful things record company owners, their labels, and publishers are doing to their artists. They often want all the rights to their music and give them a bit of change in comparison to what they would have made, by owning all their music.
"Millions of dollars from 2017 to 2024". In other words, this probably would have worked, but he got WAY too greedy.
So what is the crime? Making money?
the money printer doesnt like it when their printer aint making average random people miserable
some one JUST generated ... for over 7 years.
I JUST got married, 7 years ago (well, more like 21; but you get my point)
Michael Smith... Mike Smith... Mike Schmidt...
MICHAEL AFTON!!?!?
If they would only do so much research to see where the money goes that politicians spend on stuff for people..
Like paying 50k for a drinking fountain and seeing a re-used fountain fron a school
He got busted because he couldn’t stop himself from BRAGGING about his scam. Honestly it’s the best scam I’ve heard in a while. But it’s sad to see him get busted the same way a child would. Keep your damn mouth shut people.
Finally! One of us is “famous”?
I’ll take it
Literally how for 7 years
2.4 million a year? I would have stopped after the first year and loved on that two and half million dollars until I dies from old age.
At first I thought his name was "Musician"
i mean, even if he gets to keep half thats still more then any of us will make in over 20 years tho, good investment
Bro payed for everything. That is not fraud.
I don't understand how this is a crime...
Remember kids stealing and fraud is only ok if you’re extremely wealthy
20 years of jail time when some murderers and most rapists don't even see half of that? Money is really all that matters.
I'd like to know what law he actualy broke. Looks like a loophole to me, nothing else
Since I learnt that T-pain made more from 2 years of streaming on twitch than his entire music career. It really makes it hard for me to find sympathy for the people who run the music industry.
no way DJ Cara money glitch worked
Intellectual property as a concept is insane
has zero to do with the intellectual property rights. It is just about him creating Bots to make it seem like millions of people were listening to his music. Which All of these big companies do Themselves so WTF?