If I understand this correctly he uploaded AI generated songs and then used bots to sign up for free accounts and stream them to generate royalties.<p>In which case the prosecutor's statement doesn't really make much sense:<p>> "Through his brazen fraud scheme, Smith stole millions in royalties that should have been paid to musicians, songwriters, and other rights holders whose songs were legitimately streamed,"<p>It wasn't other artists who lost out, it was advertisers paying for bots to listen to their ads.