{"id":12280,"date":"2026-09-25T16:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/man-who-pocketed-8m-using-ai-songs-and-bot-streams-asks-for-no-prison-time-arguing-no-artist-suffered-any-perceptible-harm\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:25:18","slug":"man-who-pocketed-8m-using-ai-songs-and-bot-streams-asks-for-no-prison-time-arguing-no-artist-suffered-any-perceptible-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/man-who-pocketed-8m-using-ai-songs-and-bot-streams-asks-for-no-prison-time-arguing-no-artist-suffered-any-perceptible-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who pocketed $8m using AI songs and bot streams asks for no prison time, arguing \u2018no artist suffered any perceptible harm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Smith&#8217;s lawyers argued that his scheme caused only &#8220;tiny, immeasurable losses&#8221; spread across millions of songwriters and artists, Billboard reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/man-who-pocketed-8m-using-ai-songs-and-bot-streams-asks-for-no-prison-time-arguing-no-artist-suffered-any-perceptible-harm\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Smith&#8217;s lawyers argued that his scheme caused only &#8220;tiny, immeasurable losses&#8221; spread across millions of songwriters and artists, Billboard reported. Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}