FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
Feds say it's the first US criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming.
I am just impressed by the idea and execution. Just wow. Too bad he took it too far.
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In a 2017 email to himself, Smith calculated that he could stream his songs 661,440 times daily, potentially earning $3,307.20 per day and up to $1.2 million annually.
Great idea, but why would you email yourself about it?
I have a friend that I’ve tried to convince using a notes app, but he swears that emailing himself notes and to-do lists is more effective. He’s wrong, but to each their own.
Oh, sure. I get that. Sending yourself reminders is absolutely understandable. Sending yourself documented evidence of your plans to defraud someone is entirely different.
Recently, a bunch of people on tik tok found this "bug" in their banking app where you can write a bad check, then withdraw the funds before it clears... Then started crying about it when their balances updated
Dude definitely thought he discovered a cool new life hack
Google keep used to (don't use it anymore) store your notes "backed up" by email. You could view all your notes in gmail.
Maybe it was something like that?
I do vaguely remember that. Could be?
I mean, if you treat your inbox as a to-do list, that's not that far-fetched
I can definitely follow his logic, but there are better tools available.
Bio...graphy?