RBG@discuss.tchncs.de to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 months agoFBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heistarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1168arrow-down1external-linkFBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heistarstechnica.comRBG@discuss.tchncs.de to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squarebdonvrAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down3·edit-22 months agoIn agreeing to be paid by music streaming platforms they almost certainly agreed not to do exactly this. Which makes it fraud.
minus-squareradiohead37@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·2 months agoSounds like a breach of contract, which is a civil matter.
minus-squarebdonvrAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoI think that depends on intent and amount of money involved, but I’m definitely not a lawyer.
minus-squarestrongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIts also cyber crime which is possibly why the FBI need to be involved
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoCorpos commit cyber crimes against wage slaves daily… Feds don’t do Jack shit about it … I wonder why this would in the land of the Law 🤣
In agreeing to be paid by music streaming platforms they almost certainly agreed not to do exactly this. Which makes it fraud.
Sounds like a breach of contract, which is a civil matter.
I think that depends on intent and amount of money involved, but I’m definitely not a lawyer.
Its also cyber crime which is possibly why the FBI need to be involved
Corpos commit cyber crimes against wage slaves daily… Feds don’t do Jack shit about it … I wonder why this would in the land of the Law 🤣