News Mar 20, 2026

Michael Smith pleads guilty in $10m streaming-fraud case

It’s now 18 months since US music producer Michael Smith was arrested and charged with multiple felonies relating to a streaming-fraud scheme. He was accused of uploading hundreds of thousands of tracks to DSPs and using bots to inflate their streams to the tune of more than $10m in royalties. Now,

Originally published by Music Ally
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Michael Smith pleads guilty in $10m streaming-fraud case