Danish man found guilty of fraudulently profiting from music streaming royalties

Unnamed 53-year-old made at least £230,000 from artificially generated plays of hundreds of tracks

A Danish man has been sentenced to prison in a “historic” case after being found guilty of fraudulently profiting from royalties on hundreds of tracks on music streaming sites.

In the country’s first case of its kind, the 53-year-old man from East Jutland, whom the Danish press has decided not to name, was convicted on Thursday of making at least 2m Danish kroner (£229,676) from artificially generated streams of “several hundred” music tracks.