Oct 7, 2026 · 55 min · 10 segments
Short staffed, man sentenced to prison for AI-assisted music streaming fraud, bill introduced to ban Flock cameras, protecting AM radio, ICE blocked from making arrests at courthouses, listener mail…
Emmanuel GoldsteinHostAlexHost
Rob T. FireflyHostGilaHostTitle, North Carolina man sentenced to 18 months in prison for superintelligence-assisted music streaming fraud.
Yeah, this is the Justice Department's first ever criminally charged superintelligence-assisted music streaming fraud.
Jamie McDonald, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Michael Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud music streaming platforms and musicians of royalty payments.
On March 19th, 2026, Smith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge John G. Coetti, who imposed today's sentence.
But are you not as thrown as I am by just the way all these robots in the government are calling it superintelligence now as if that is the right name, as if that's always been the right name? I feel like I'm in a damn George Orwell novel.
Oh, it's bizarre.
I mean, everybody's falling into line.
Everybody's calling it superintelligence.
I'm kind of curious about the whole idea of of how he would use artificial intelligence, we'll call it that.
Oh, you
rebel, wow.
You're going
saying it, aren't you? No, I have to.
I mean, I can't continue with super intelligence nonsense.
It's too much.
But how would you use this to stream or to defraud streaming services or defraud the artists? And I wonder why it's in the Southern District of New York as well.
Title, North Carolina man sentenced to 18 months in prison for superintelligence-assisted music streaming fraud.
Yeah, this is the Justice Department's first ever criminally charged superintelligence-assisted music streaming fraud.
Jamie McDonald, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Michael Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud music streaming platforms and musicians of royalty payments.
On March 19th, 2026, Smith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge John G. Coetti, who imposed today's sentence.
But are you not as thrown as I am by just the way all these robots in the government are calling it superintelligence now as if that is the right name, as if that's always been the right name? I feel like I'm in a damn George Orwell novel.
Oh, it's bizarre.
I mean, everybody's falling into line.
Everybody's calling it superintelligence.
I'm kind of curious about the whole idea of of how he would use artificial intelligence, we'll call it that.
Oh, you
rebel, wow.
You're going
saying it, aren't you? No, I have to.
I mean, I can't continue with super intelligence nonsense.
It's too much.
But how would you use this to stream or to defraud streaming services or defraud the artists? And I wonder why it's in the Southern District of New York as well.
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