WRAL:
The indictment said that when a music distribution company in 2018 suggested that he might be engaged in fraud, he protested, writing: “This is absolutely wrong and crazy! ... There is absolutely no fraud going on whatsoever!”
According to the indictment, [the musician] denied engaging in streaming fraud when confronted by the Mechanical Licensing Collective, which distributes streaming royalties. The MLC raised doubt in 2023 about how he could generate so much music so quickly without using AI.