{"id":13690,"date":"2026-10-07T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/michael-smith-man-behind-8m-ai-song-and-bot-streaming-fraud-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:29:53","slug":"michael-smith-man-behind-8m-ai-song-and-bot-streaming-fraud-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/michael-smith-man-behind-8m-ai-song-and-bot-streaming-fraud-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Smith, man behind $8M AI song and bot streaming fraud, sentenced to 18 months in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US District Judge John G. Koeltl also ordered Michael Smith to forfeit USD $8,091,843.64, the loss figure agreed by both sides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/man-behind-8m-ai-song-and-bot-streaming-fraud-is-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US District Judge John G. Koeltl also ordered Michael Smith to forfeit USD $8,091,843.64, the loss figure agreed by both sides. 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-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","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=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}