Hi_Lo
2 days ago
JAKE P. NOCH - SONG CEO FRAUD PART II
https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-indie-label-streaming-fraud-millions-fake-accounts-countersuit/
Spotify Countersues Indie Label, Alleging Massive Streaming Fraud & Millions of Fake Accounts
Spotify has countersued indie label Sosa Entertainment and its founder Jake Noch, alleging massive streaming fraud, unjust enrichment and the creation of millions of fake accounts to generate…
In November 2019, indie hip-hop label Sosa Entertainment and its founder, 20-year-old Jake Noch, filed a lawsuit against Spotify that alleged the streaming service failed to pay royalties on over 550 million streams of its music. The suit, which was also brought on behalf of Noch’s PRO Pro Music Rights (which was later removed), sought $150,000 in statutory damages for each infringement, and alleged that Spotify removed its music not because it detected “abnormal streaming activity,” as the service claimed, but because it was trying to dodge paying royalties on the streams.
Now, Spotify has fired back with a countersuit alleging that Noch “designed a scheme to artificially generate hundreds of millions of fraudulent streams” in order to “manipulate Spotify’s system to extract undeserved royalties at the expense of hardworking artists and songwriters.” The filing, which is supported by screenshots of messages allegedly between Noch and a “bot farmer” and charts that show streams on Noch’s music go from zero into the hundreds of thousands in a matter of days, also alleges that Noch directed the bot farmer to create millions of fake accounts and changed the names of songs in his catalog to closely resemble those of established hit songs, like XXXTentacion’s “SAD!” and DJ Snake’s “Taki Taki.”
Spotify has countersued indie label Sosa Entertainment and its founder Jake Noch, alleging massive streaming fraud, unjust enrichment and the creation of millions of fake accounts to generate…
BY DAN RYS
In November 2019, indie hip-hop label Sosa Entertainment and its founder, 20-year-old Jake Noch, filed a lawsuit against Spotify that alleged the streaming service failed to pay royalties on over 550 million streams of its music. The suit, which was also brought on behalf of Noch’s PRO Pro Music Rights (which was later removed), sought $150,000 in statutory damages for each infringement, and alleged that Spotify removed its music not because it detected “abnormal streaming activity,” as the service claimed, but because it was trying to dodge paying royalties on the streams.
Now, Spotify has fired back with a countersuit alleging that Noch “designed a scheme to artificially generate hundreds of millions of fraudulent streams” in order to “manipulate Spotify’s system to extract undeserved royalties at the expense of hardworking artists and songwriters.” The filing, which is supported by screenshots of messages allegedly between Noch and a “bot farmer” and charts that show streams on Noch’s music go from zero into the hundreds of thousands in a matter of days, also alleges that Noch directed the bot farmer to create millions of fake accounts and changed the names of songs in his catalog to closely resemble those of established hit songs, like XXXTentacion’s “SAD!” and DJ Snake’s “Taki Taki.”
Indie Hip-Hop Label Files Suit Against Spotify Over Catalog Takedown
Noch, who lists himself as the chief executive of Sosa and Pro Music Rights, as well as a handful of additional music companies, has quite the proud litigious history, having released several press releases touting lawsuits against Spotify, Apple, Google, YouTube, Amazon, SoundCloud, Pandora, Deezer, iHeartRadio and more. Pro Music Rights claims a database of some 2 million tracks, including more than 23,000 by various artists using some form of the name “LEGATO,” like LEGATO_DIMY, LEGATODE45, LEGATODI001, LEGATOGILL2002 and LEGATOKAL999, to name a few.
According to Spotify’s counterclaim, filed Monday (May 18), the service first detected artificial streaming activity on Noch’s content in March 2016 and eventually banned his music from the service, before extending that ban to all content related to Noch. Noch then tried to “smuggle” the content back onto the service using slightly different names and created millions of fake accounts to stream that music.
In June 2016, a whistleblower contacted Spotify with screenshots that purported to show Noch directing the person to create millions (direct quote: “i need millions”) of fake accounts. And while Spotify had identified the fraud a few months prior, the company had already paid a small amount of royalties to Sosa and Noch — royalties that otherwise would have gone to legitimate songwriters with songs being streamed by legitimate fans. According to the complaint, for one of Noch’s albums that jumped from zero streams to more than 400,000 in just days, 99% of its streams came from Spotify’s ad-supported free tier and from accounts registered to male users in the United States, a pattern that was also found for other works.
Noch then changed distributors and changed the names of some of his companies in order to dodge Spotify’s fraud detection systems, with slightly different artist names, song titles and cover artwork. In one section of the complaint, attorneys wrote that “analysts at Spotify found that 5,500 ‘users’ streaming one of the Sosa albums ‘originated’ from a small American town with a total population of 10,000. For that album, the stream count jumped from zero to 749,000 streams in a span of only two days… This pattern is highly anomalous and not at all correlated to any possible pattern of genuine streaming activity.”
In another example from the complaint, in what the filing calls “title track parasitism,” Noch and Sosa uploaded tracks called “SAD!” with the same punctuation as the XXXTentacion hit, and “Taki Take,” shortly after the similarly-named DJ Snake song reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100. Some of the tracks that Noch and Sosa would release on Spotify were AI-generated sound loops.
In all, Spotify’s counterclaim seeks relief for fraud, fraudulent concealment, breach of contract, indemnification, unjust enrichment and deceptive business practices. As another line in the complaint reads, “This was one of the most egregious fraudulent streaming operations from a single rights holder that Spotify had to deal with in its company’s history.”
After the publication of this story, Noch provided a comment to Billboard which reads, in part, “Spotify’s claims are laughable… I also greatly look forward to the day we get to go to court, and I hope that all of Spotify’s shareholders will pay close attention to these cases… Time will prove that we are right.”
Hi_Lo
2 days ago
JAKE P. NOCH - SONG CEO FRAUD PART I
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7gmvd/spotify-sues-self-described-music-prodigy-who-allegedly-ran-royalties-scam
Spotify Sues Self-Described 'Music Prodigy' Who Allegedly Ran Royalties Scam
Spotify says Jake Noch "[generated] hundreds of millions of fraudulent streams" and engaged in "title track parasitism" among other fraudulent practices on its platform.
JC
By Jelisa Castrodale
May 19, 2020, 4:38pm
Last November, the 20-year-old head of indie hip-hop label Sosa Entertainment filed a massive (and massively complicated) lawsuit against Spotify, alleging that the digital music service hadn't paid royalties on more than 550 million streams of its songs. According to Billboard, Sosa Entertainment founder Jake Noch also named his other company, PRO Music Rights, as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, and the co-plaintiffs sought millions of dollars in damages, asking for $150,000 for each infringement.
Noch's lawsuit accused Spotify of a number of transgressions, including unfair and deceptive business practices, willfully removing Sosa Entertainment's content, "obliterating" his expectations, and refusing to pay royalties. In a statement, Noch said that he was willing to "fight to the end" if it meant that Spotify would ultimately compensate the artists who were affected.
"I have a duty to see this through so that I can pay my artists what they are owed from Spotify," he said. "I know others feel the same way as I blaze this trail for the music community, who I know is behind me and roots for our success in bringing down Spotify."
Part of Noch's problems with the company started in the spring of 2017 when Spotify removed all of Sosa Entertainment's song's from its servers and "blanket banned" Noch and his companies from using the platform going forward. According to Noch—who describes himself as a "musical prodigy" in his lawsuit—Spotify informed him that the songs were removed because of "abnormal streaming activity," but the company didn't give him the opportunity to explain what could've caused the weird-looking streaming data. Noch has alleged that Spotify just "fabricated a reason" to kick him off the platform, in an attempt to avoid having to pay the royalties that he was due.
But in its own countersuit, filed on Monday, Spotify says no, it was just because of the abnormal streaming, and also because Noch allegedly "designed a scheme to artificially generate hundreds of millions of fraudulent streams" in order to game the system and rack up a ton of royalty payments.
"Starting in 2016, Noch designed a scheme to artificially generate hundreds of millions of fraudulent streams on songs he had seeded on Spotify’s online music-streaming service," the company's complaint reads. "Noch’s objective was plain: to manipulate Spotify’s system to extract undeserved royalties at the expense of hardworking artists and songwriters."
Billboard reports that Spotify removed Noch's content from its platform after being contacted by a whistleblower who claimed that Noch had instructed a bot farmer to create literally millions of fake accounts to stream songs from the Sosa Entertainment catalog. Spotify's own analysts became suspicious when one of Noch's records went from zero streams to 400,000 in under a week, while a second album racked up 749,000 streams in two days. (Spotify also apparently determined that 5,500 of the accounts that played the latter record supposedly all lived in the same American town—even though the town's total population was just around 10,000 people.)
The company has also accused Noch of "title track parasitism," which involves uploading songs with the same name and punctuation of legitimate hit songs. Spotify's legal filing identified two "AI-generated sound loops" that had been given the same name as then-popular tracks by DJ Snake and XXXTentacion.
"This was one of the most egregious fraudulent streaming operations from a single rights holder that Spotify had to deal with in its company’s history," Spotify wrote in its complaint. The company's countersuit is asking for compensation for a long list of Noch's alleged transgressions, including fraud, fraudulent concealment, breach of contract, indemnification, unjust enrichment and deceptive business practices.
Damn, most 20-year-olds can only dream of being dragged that hard by an international streaming service. A musical prodigy, indeed.
Dragon Lady
2 days ago
$SONG: DIRTY JAKE NEXT DIRTY SPLIT LMAO !!
💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️
Maybe he got served....
LOL....sooo....Ole SmallCRAPVoice is getting tossed under the bus....OR is tossing DIRTY JAKE under the bus....or they both be tossing salads...who the hell knows....OTC con peddlers ....the both of um.......
Time to serve DIRTY JAKE and get that dipshit BOY put in cuffs..........
Dig this though Td.........ANOTHER REVERSE SPLIT-a-CON.......lil GodNobody aka DIRTY JAKE NOCH.... must need to raise a lil $COIN as he's ON THE RUN FROM AMEX among other creditors....they had thee SHERIFF of Naples attempt to serve his sorry criminal ass.....NOT FOUND....which tells me he's hiding out in the "Islands" ...aka one of momma's lux vacation island homes.....OR....or one of several "other" properties of MOMMA REGINA NOCH.....they have several homes scattered around.......
WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS FOR OTC CRIMINAL PENNY CON HUSTLERS......just PULL THE MAGIC REVERSE SPLIT-o-MATIC LEVER....LMAO....DIRTY JAKE.....
1 for 2,500
Soooo.....back of the napkin DIRTY JAKE MATH.....
1 for 500,000 X 1 for 2,500 = 125,000,000
One Hundred Twenty Five Ma Ma Ma MILLION...the REAL TRUE SPLIT RATIO in under a damn short YEAR !!!
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1671132/000121390025004378/ea0227920-1u_music.htm
Item 9. Other Events
Music Licensing, Inc. (the “Company” or “Music Licensing”) (OTC: SONG) today announced that it will effect a 2,500-for-1 reverse stock split of its issued and outstanding common stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”), effective on January 21, 2025 (the “Split Effective Time”). Following the Reverse Stock Split, no fractional shares will be issued. Stockholders who would otherwise be entitled to receive fractional shares will instead have their holdings rounded up to one whole share of common stock.
The Company’s common stock will trade on a split-adjusted basis under the temporary trading symbol “SONGD” for approximately 20 business days following the Split Effective Time, after which the symbol will revert to “SONG.”
Stockholders are not required to take any action in connection with the Reverse Stock Split. Stockholders holding their shares in book-entry form or through a brokerage account will see the adjustments automatically reflected in their accounts. Stockholders are encouraged to contact their bank, broker, or custodian with any procedural questions.
Jan 21 BWaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ha ha is SPLIT THE SHIT DAY....DIRTY JAKE P. NOCH STYLE........dude gives like 4 DAYS notice and the ole NO ...we don't need your vote nor do we care what any baggie holder thinks......
When the local Sheriff CAN'T PROCESS SERVE HIS SORRY ASS aka AMEX v. JAKE NOCH.......the boy clown is in hiding and avoiding being found....not even a doubt....
Naples ain't a big place.....they can literally spot dipshit boy BrickClownSosa driving around and lay the papers on him and would make multiple attempts to serve him at MOMMA'S CRIB aka 2951 Crayton Rd, Naples FL 34103.......
https://www.instagram.com/promusicrights_ceo/p/C9ZGAS4M3kI/
BLANKED HER FACE OUT ON PURPOSE....DIRTY JAKE STYLE....but I have her photo .....easy-peasy kinda find....:))
AND they know his "wife" he married less than 2 yrs ago....aka Kaziah Devine Delancy Noch (now)....NO...I ain't making that name up WTF.......she being living at MOMMA'S CRIB TOO.....so ole DIRTY JAKE is intentionally avoiding being found....not a doubt......
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shajandr
1 month ago
Shitbricks Dog Sisi (aka SHAKY JAKE) desperately wants to "be somebody" in the music biz, butt all he can ever be is himself, who is a nobody.
He just cannot accept this reality. That after many years he hasn't accomplished anything, and, to the extent that anyone in DaBiz even knows his name, he is known as a total failure and a joke. If he tells himself that he is still young, he can lie to himself and think there is still time for him to succeed at something. There is nott. Failures like SHAKY JAKE are simply lifelong losers - losers to the bone. Butt lying to themselves (and to others) is the only coping mechanism that allows them to deny the reality of their profound personal inadequacy.
SHAKY JAKE is a nobody and will always be a nobody. He has no talent, no marketable skill, no money, and no prospects. His coping mechanism is to live in a fictitious dream world that he uses to escape temporarily from his odiferous and bleak reality - including pissing away his mom's trust funds in his "fambly office" turd that will go nowhere butt into DaDrain.
SHAKY JAKE doesn't have an inferiority complex. He is just inferior and inadequate and unwilling to face that reality. The denial of his serial failures is butt one small manifestation of the illusion he paints for himself and his ego.
On top of that, he is a raging asshole as well, butt that's thrown in for free. An effortless bonus of his hapless, ridiculous existence.
He will wind up in Federal prison like JUSTIN(E) COSTELLO, DAVID RUSSELL FOLEY, BENNIE BLANKENSHIP, TOVY PUSTOVIT, and thousands of others who were/are much smarter than SHAKY JAKE and had vastly better legal representation - some of whom were even competent.
Butt nott before his pisses away mom's trust funds so when she is elderly she can wither and die in a state-supported nursing/waiting-to-die home without even enuff munny to buy a candy bar from the vending machine.
SHAKY JAKE = megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur and narcissistic personality disorder butt in reality he's a talentless, vapid, poor-cognition and planning, child-moron. Butt one with access to mommy's trust fund munny as Little Oedipus seeks to prove to himself, his brothers, and especially mom that he is as good as his dead daddy - butt he is nott. And this ends with mommy broke, SHAKY JAKE in prison, and everything his dead daddy built destroyed and lost.
Pay yer damned delinquent AMEX bills, SHAKY JAKE!
Yer mom will wind up getting one of these EBT cards
Hi_Lo
1 month ago
Did you know that his record label "reshaped the music industry landscape"?
LOL!!!
Yeah, if by that he means his record label got caught perpetrating Spotify's largest fraud in it's history.
https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-indie-label-streaming-fraud-millions-fake-accounts-countersuit/
Spotify Countersues Indie Label, Alleging Massive Streaming Fraud & Millions of Fake Accounts
Spotify has countersued indie label Sosa Entertainment and its founder Jake Noch, alleging massive streaming fraud, unjust enrichment and the creation of millions of fake accounts to generate…
In November 2019, indie hip-hop label Sosa Entertainment and its founder, 20-year-old Jake Noch, filed a lawsuit against Spotify that alleged the streaming service failed to pay royalties on over 550 million streams of its music. The suit, which was also brought on behalf of Noch’s PRO Pro Music Rights (which was later removed), sought $150,000 in statutory damages for each infringement, and alleged that Spotify removed its music not because it detected “abnormal streaming activity,” as the service claimed, but because it was trying to dodge paying royalties on the streams.
Now, Spotify has fired back with a countersuit alleging that Noch “designed a scheme to artificially generate hundreds of millions of fraudulent streams” in order to “manipulate Spotify’s system to extract undeserved royalties at the expense of hardworking artists and songwriters.” The filing, which is supported by screenshots of messages allegedly between Noch and a “bot farmer” and charts that show streams on Noch’s music go from zero into the hundreds of thousands in a matter of days, also alleges that Noch directed the bot farmer to create millions of fake accounts and changed the names of songs in his catalog to closely resemble those of established hit songs, like XXXTentacion’s “SAD!” and DJ Snake’s “Taki Taki.”
Spotify has countersued indie label Sosa Entertainment and its founder Jake Noch, alleging massive streaming fraud, unjust enrichment and the creation of millions of fake accounts to generate…
BY DAN RYS
In November 2019, indie hip-hop label Sosa Entertainment and its founder, 20-year-old Jake Noch, filed a lawsuit against Spotify that alleged the streaming service failed to pay royalties on over 550 million streams of its music. The suit, which was also brought on behalf of Noch’s PRO Pro Music Rights (which was later removed), sought $150,000 in statutory damages for each infringement, and alleged that Spotify removed its music not because it detected “abnormal streaming activity,” as the service claimed, but because it was trying to dodge paying royalties on the streams.
Now, Spotify has fired back with a countersuit alleging that Noch “designed a scheme to artificially generate hundreds of millions of fraudulent streams” in order to “manipulate Spotify’s system to extract undeserved royalties at the expense of hardworking artists and songwriters.” The filing, which is supported by screenshots of messages allegedly between Noch and a “bot farmer” and charts that show streams on Noch’s music go from zero into the hundreds of thousands in a matter of days, also alleges that Noch directed the bot farmer to create millions of fake accounts and changed the names of songs in his catalog to closely resemble those of established hit songs, like XXXTentacion’s “SAD!” and DJ Snake’s “Taki Taki.”
Indie Hip-Hop Label Files Suit Against Spotify Over Catalog Takedown
Noch, who lists himself as the chief executive of Sosa and Pro Music Rights, as well as a handful of additional music companies, has quite the proud litigious history, having released several press releases touting lawsuits against Spotify, Apple, Google, YouTube, Amazon, SoundCloud, Pandora, Deezer, iHeartRadio and more. Pro Music Rights claims a database of some 2 million tracks, including more than 23,000 by various artists using some form of the name “LEGATO,” like LEGATO_DIMY, LEGATODE45, LEGATODI001, LEGATOGILL2002 and LEGATOKAL999, to name a few.
According to Spotify’s counterclaim, filed Monday (May 18), the service first detected artificial streaming activity on Noch’s content in March 2016 and eventually banned his music from the service, before extending that ban to all content related to Noch. Noch then tried to “smuggle” the content back onto the service using slightly different names and created millions of fake accounts to stream that music.
In June 2016, a whistleblower contacted Spotify with screenshots that purported to show Noch directing the person to create millions (direct quote: “i need millions”) of fake accounts. And while Spotify had identified the fraud a few months prior, the company had already paid a small amount of royalties to Sosa and Noch — royalties that otherwise would have gone to legitimate songwriters with songs being streamed by legitimate fans. According to the complaint, for one of Noch’s albums that jumped from zero streams to more than 400,000 in just days, 99% of its streams came from Spotify’s ad-supported free tier and from accounts registered to male users in the United States, a pattern that was also found for other works.
Noch then changed distributors and changed the names of some of his companies in order to dodge Spotify’s fraud detection systems, with slightly different artist names, song titles and cover artwork. In one section of the complaint, attorneys wrote that “analysts at Spotify found that 5,500 ‘users’ streaming one of the Sosa albums ‘originated’ from a small American town with a total population of 10,000. For that album, the stream count jumped from zero to 749,000 streams in a span of only two days… This pattern is highly anomalous and not at all correlated to any possible pattern of genuine streaming activity.”
In another example from the complaint, in what the filing calls “title track parasitism,” Noch and Sosa uploaded tracks called “SAD!” with the same punctuation as the XXXTentacion hit, and “Taki Take,” shortly after the similarly-named DJ Snake song reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100. Some of the tracks that Noch and Sosa would release on Spotify were AI-generated sound loops.
In all, Spotify’s counterclaim seeks relief for fraud, fraudulent concealment, breach of contract, indemnification, unjust enrichment and deceptive business practices. As another line in the complaint reads, “This was one of the most egregious fraudulent streaming operations from a single rights holder that Spotify had to deal with in its company’s history.”
After the publication of this story, Noch provided a comment to Billboard which reads, in part, “Spotify’s claims are laughable… I also greatly look forward to the day we get to go to court, and I hope that all of Spotify’s shareholders will pay close attention to these cases… Time will prove that we are right.”
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