• Cloaked published an industry analysis warning AI-generated music and bot farms can siphon royalties from legitimate artists through streaming fraud.
• Case summary cited hundreds of thousands of AI-generated tracks, more than 1,000 bot accounts, VPN masking, plan abuse, billions of fraudulent plays.
• Prosecutors alleged the scheme pulled USD 10 million, ending in an 18-month sentence, USD 8.09 million forfeiture, supervised release.
• Internal estimates cited 661,440 streams per day, implying USD 3,307.20 daily royalties, USD 99,216 monthly, more than USD 1.2 million annually.
• Recommended tighter family-plan monitoring, stronger device and identity signals, VPN risk scoring, faster containment to raise attackers’ operating costs.

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