Guy Who Made Millions by Creating AI Music Ouroboros Receives 18-Month Prison Sentence

In Magic: The Gathering, you know it as the Channel/Fireball card combination. In 2000, an engineer named David Phillips accomplished something like it by buying $3,140 worth of pudding, and receiving $150,000 in frequent flyer miles. It’s that elusive, too-good-to-be-true arbitrage scheme that causes you to instantly win at life.

Unfortunately, it turns out the version where you make AI bots listen to AI songs and collect millions of dollars in streaming royalties can result in a year-and-a-half prison sentence…