March 19, 2026
A North Carolina man told a Manhattan federal judge on Thursday that he conspired to inflate music streaming payments using an army of fake accounts and artificial intelligence-generated songs, copping to a count of conspiracy and agreeing to forfeit $8 million.
January 01, 2025
The coming year's main event in New York courts is an expected sex-trafficking trial for hip-hop icon Sean "Diddy" Combs, while the political reascendancy of Donald Trump will echo in halls of the judiciary as the president-elect litigates to quash his own conviction.
September 18, 2024
A North Carolina man facing a novel fraud case alleging he used artificial intelligence on platforms like Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube to generate around $10 million in illegal revenues denied wrongdoing at his initial court appearance Wednesday in New York.
September 04, 2024
A North Carolina man streamed thousands of artificial intelligence-generated songs to dupe streaming giants like Spotify and YouTube and generate $10 million in an elaborate scam, federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Wednesday in a first-of-its-kind case.