An $8M streaming fraud, two plays a day. Here's the pro-rata math behind the bot scheme – and the rule change that would have killed it.

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“Ahead of Tuesday's sentencing in the first US criminal streaming fraud case, MBW breaks down the pro-rata arithmetic behind Michael Smith's bot scheme. Source”As reported by Music Business Worldwide