{"id":13241,"date":"2026-10-02T19:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/an-8m-streaming-fraud-two-plays-a-day-heres-the-pro-rata-math-behind-the-bot-scheme-and-the-rule-change-that-would-have-killed-it\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:42:39","slug":"an-8m-streaming-fraud-two-plays-a-day-heres-the-pro-rata-math-behind-the-bot-scheme-and-the-rule-change-that-would-have-killed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/an-8m-streaming-fraud-two-plays-a-day-heres-the-pro-rata-math-behind-the-bot-scheme-and-the-rule-change-that-would-have-killed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"An $8M streaming fraud, two plays a day. Here\u2019s the pro-rata math behind the bot scheme \u2013 and the rule change that would have killed it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s sentencing in the first US criminal streaming fraud case, MBW breaks down the pro-rata arithmetic behind Michael Smith&#8217;s bot scheme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/an-8m-streaming-fraud-two-plays-a-day-heres-the-pro-rata-math-behind-the-bot-scheme-and-the-rule-change-that-would-have-killed-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s sentencing in the first US criminal streaming fraud case, MBW breaks down the pro-rata arithmetic behind Michael Smith&#8217;s bot scheme. 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-13241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241","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=13241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}