Re:Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme
by randyrand on Saturday March 21, 2026 @07:37AM
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Not it’s not. Creating fake accounts and instructing them to listen to music does not generate any money. The actual money generation, the actual fraud, was carried out on his behalf when the platform claimed the listens were real and charged the advertisers for it.
Under the letter of the law, this is just a TOS violation.
Re:Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme
by pocksuppet on Saturday March 21, 2026 @05:35AM
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What were the false or fradulent pretenses, representations, or promises?
Re:Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme
by barrkel on Saturday March 21, 2026 @05:50AM
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A false representation of user interest
Re:Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme
by pocksuppet on Sunday March 22, 2026 @05:15PM
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by accessing something on the internet with curl do I falsely represent using a browser?
Re:Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme
by potsandpans on Saturday March 21, 2026 @09:13PM
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Are you a lawyer?
It’s wire fraud