FIRST TIME EVER: Man Used AI Music To Steal $8 Million & Got 18-Months For It.
Published October 12, 2026
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1,254,737
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40,959
Comments
1,760
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54-year-old musician used thousands of bots to stream his AI-generated music and steal $8 million from artists and Spotify, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music. At one point he was getting NINE times more streams than Taylor Swift. —————————— Edited by: James Girardier Writing: Brian Espinoza, Philip DeFranco —————————…
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- October 12, 2026
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How FIRST TIME EVER: Man Used AI Music To Steal $8 Million & Got 18-Months For It. is doing
It has 1.25M views in total. It ranks #4,302,665 among tracked YouTube videos by views.
Key facts about FIRST TIME EVER: Man Used AI Music To Steal $8 Million & Got 18-Months For It.
- Total views
- 1.25M
- Total likes
- 40.9K
- Total comments
- 1.76K
- Published
- October 12, 2026
- Global rank by views
- #4,302,665
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