Music
Musician admits to $10M streaming royalty fraud using AI bots
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 YouTube Music. 54-year-old Smith bought hundreds of thousands of songs generated using artificial intelligence (AI) from an accomplice, uploaded them to these streaming platforms, and […]
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PyPi package with 100K installs pirated music from Deezer for years
A malicious PyPi package named ‘automslc’ has been downloaded over 100,000 times from the Python Package Index since 2019, abusing hard-coded credentials to pirate music from the Deezer streaming service. Deezer is a music streaming service available in 180 countries that offers access to over 90 million tracks, playlists, and podcasts. It is offered via […]
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