Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Tire@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Try to overthrow the US government? You can still be president. Break a companies arbitrary TOS? Police are at your door to take you away for a long time.

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That just shows which of these two roles hold a higher regard in US judicial system.

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  • ARg94@lemmy.packitsolutions.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rent free…

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    • Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, of course. A president attempting to overthrow the government is a huge deal, you fetid fucking moron.

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      • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But nuthin hayuh-pinned! It wuz aint teefuh! Reeuhnt freeee…

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    • nomous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lemmy.packitsolutions.net

      Interesting instance.

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    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It might be because I’m drunk, but Trump-posting from “lemmy.packitsolutions.net” is genuinely hilarious. It’s giving Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

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  • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Show me where in the article it says he was arrested for a TOS violation.

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What law is being broken here?

  He stepped onto the rich people’s turf. We plebs are supposed to stay in our thatch huts beyond their line of sight.

  Straight to jail.

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• sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s fraud in the U.K. Fraud is basically whenever you misuse a system for undue profit. The terms are very broad. “You know it when you see it” kind of thing.

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  • shani66@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, in the u.k., it’s just one of those “we keep this handy to hurt the uppity poors” laws?

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    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably the opposite actually. Almost all white collar crime falls in under fraud.

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    • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They got Robert Maxwell for it. He wasn’t at all poor.

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• PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not a lawyer but this sounds like a pretty textbook definition of fraudulent business practice to me.

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• Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would assume it is Fraud

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• RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure how this is a crime… breach of TOS, sure, but a crime?

  What law is being broken here?

  Not curious enough to actually read the article, eh?

  Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

  One may argue about money laundering but it’s pretty clearly fraud.

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s just a generic indictment. And it’s allegedly. How do you perform wire fraud if a corporation legally paid you for a service?

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    • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I read another article on this and it’s very unclear what was illegal. If I had to guess they’re getting him on the technicalities of the process rather than on the actual streaming.

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• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its theft, which is against the law to do against a company or person. Its similar to trading in empty boxes at GameStop or sending back boxes full of rocks to amazon.

  Although most people seem to just pick a side based on whether they think that company should exist or not.

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  • LinusSexTips@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are far too many loopholes for me not to hate companies be they small or large.

    In Australia, “family trusts” are a sure way to write off a good chunk of your expenses (groceries, fuel and so on) while paying yourself a wage. If you really want you can cook the books taking cash sales for yourself too.

    Don’t forget about “taking” whatever you want from the company, and writing that off as a loss.

    Maybe I should hate people, but in a vacuum people are reasonable, logical and honorable. But once we introduce a “well maybe” or an “but what if I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking?” my view of people becomes skewed.

    I guess, I wanted to vent about how fucked everything seems to be and that I feel powerless to do anything about it. GameStop as a company probably deserve the rocks in boxes, Amazon deserve them too, all because people are running those companies.

    I’m not above greed, but I’d like to think / feel that I put out more than I take and it seems quite uncommon in our modern society.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People will use whatever tools available to them. If their community supports it they will do it publicly, if not they will hide it. Drug use is a great example in some cases.

      If Australia allows people to convert their families to a company just to avoid taxes, then thats on the government to fix, not the people to stop doing.

      As long as there is no UBI there will always be pressure to use all tools available when things get hard.

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• ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What law is being broken here?

  The law of “don’t take money from the rich and powerful; only they take their your money”.

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• futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gaining money from someone else by lying and/or deception. The legal term for that is fraud.

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