RBG to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 4 months agoFBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heistarstechnica.commessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1161file-text
arrow-up1161external-linkFBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heistarstechnica.comRBG to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•edit-24 months agoIn agreeing to be paid by music streaming platforms they almost certainly agreed not to do exactly this. Which makes it fraud.
minus-square@radiohead37linkEnglish16•4 months agoSounds like a breach of contract, which is a civil matter.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•4 months agoI think that depends on intent and amount of money involved, but I’m definitely not a lawyer.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoIts also cyber crime which is possibly why the FBI need to be involved
minus-squaresunzu2linkfedilink2•4 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 🤣