This would have been a complete non issue if streaming services paid, not by streams as a percentage of the entire cake, but as a percentage per _streamer_ streaming each song.<p>The argument in court (according to older reports in danish media) was that other streamers were receiving less payout. But if he only received money from the bots he set up to listen, then at most this could amount to a laundering operation.
<i>He was sentenced to one year and six months – three months of which he must serve in prison – and the judge confiscated 2m Danish kroner (half of which will be taken from the man and half from his company). He was also fined 200,000 Danish kroner.</i><p>lol good ol' Norwegian justice system. This would likely be 10+ years in the US. It also refutes the common argument that lenient sentencing or 'rehabilitative justice' is a better deterrent compared to the more punitive US justice system. Crime would likely be way, way worse in the US if it adopted Northern Europe's lax standards of sentencing.