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Jake P. Noch - SONG CEO part 2
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.”
Jake P. Noch - SONG CEO
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.
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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.
Justice and preventing scammers is always worthwhile for those who can think outside themselves. I am one of those people, good before personal benefit. Not something you'd ever understand.
99% of the OTC is just failure and I trade them. The scammers who seek to abuse the system can get the justice they deserve. Again, someone so selfish would never get it...
I'm not understanding how it benefits you, though. Perhaps some day I would like to do what you do, but it doesn't seem like it. Trading the stock is much more beneficial and rewarding. After a few years of research, you can grasp the concepts of what makes tickers go up and down. It's then easy to plan what the stock will do in the near future. It seems to be the opposite way of how you think which is why I'm having a very hard time understanding why someone would put so much time into something for a negative outcome? Please help me think of why someone would pursue such an endeavor. lol
Jake has plenty of theories with no proof to back it up as where others have plenty of facts with proof. He's just another one of those conspiracy theorist nut jobs.
Fun news, a group that Jakey's idiot lawyer reached out to directly to coordinate an attach against me... well one of them is in court today because he serially harassed someone he is convinced is me. He claimed I am one person controlling +400 accounts, just like Jakey. Here is what mentally ill conspiracy theories get you folks. Take note, the people who come after me end up in legal trouble.
Jakey, might wanna check in on your biggest fan pushing your same agenda... he's going to have a restraining order against him and much worse to follow. You think you have the law behind me, but all I do is keep winning.
The only thing profitable are the shares he dumps into the market to stuff his pockets with cash because the so called company certainly isn't worth a 💩
Love how he never announces or mentions any figures on how much the royalty payments received are. Only take 40 years to break even on what he paid for the stake in it.
Jakey's gotta be down bad trying to pump Listerine payments still, on a Friday, down another 15%. DOWN BAD!
Is Jake buying shares back to avoid the share price falling to below one cent ?
Odd to see the selling suddenly stop and then roughly the same number of shares being bought after the shares fell so much so quickly
Can’t help feeling a BIG sales dump is planned for coming days
Well, now this is my top hobby until he is charged.
I'm a shareholder who gave the kid the benefit of the doubt until others like yourself pointed out all of the red flags supported with documentation with the receipts to back it up. Contacted Jake about some of the issues pointed out only to be immediately blocked and left with more questions than answers. What has and continues to be occuring here can not be ignored. Like you I was also willing to walk away, chalk it up as a loss that is until the little $#@& threatened myself and other shareholders with legal actions. Now I want answers, I want the truth for those of us who entrusted this kid and his "company" with our hard earned money.
Want to know something funny? My only plan on Twitter was to makes few posts and move on. Then he started started reporting my account, getting me banned, and trying to sue my friends then me. So I kept going. I was about to change my account, but he reported it again past few days falsely and had to make a small change... so I will double down.
His inability to take like a man factually correct criticism will indeed be his downfall. Imagine being the CEO of a company, knowingly lying, and not having the mental stamina to take it like a man? Imagine being so petty and such a big loser. Don't create enemies you can't defeat.
52 week range $5,000 down to 30 cents. Tell me it's a scam without telling me it's a scam. CEO is either inept or criminal, or just an inept criminal.
The 3a10 is illegal. Jake has no legal exemption to issue himself free trading shares and sell them with no limits into the market. This is not a debate, this is a fact.
The defamation complaint he claims I am in control of hundreds of accounts, threatened his family, and that he does not know the ID of any of the accounts. Problem:
1) he doesn't show a single threat, you need to provide background facts to support your complaint
2) he doesn't show how any account is connected to said threats, why are porn bots on his list? Why are accounts that simply liked a post on the list? Why did he confess on X that many of the accounts have nothing to worry about. Whoops.
3) he has provided no background on what was said that was false and defamed him, the judge is the same judge as two of his 3a10 cases. Meaning if he wants to move the lawsuit forward, he has to provide those posts made stating it was illegal. The judge will then read those posts and look at the 3a10 law and the claims that they purposefully defrauded the courts, he would see that they did in fact defraud the courts, and ... you can see how that might end given he has an open fairness hearing on one of them.
4) he in fact knows the IDs of two of the accounts. He has DM'd them, texted, them, sent emails, calls, etc... and sent one a C&D letter. So he lied to the court and his idiot lawyer that send the C&D lied to the court including the same person in the John Doe claiming they didn't know who they were. Fraud.
5) this account is not in the subpoena
So IF someone has lied about the company and did in fact cause him harm, he has yet to show that as required to move the lawsuit forward. If he does, he has to admit to the court or open up to the court someone else showing he has been lying to the court for over a year now. He has to weight the value of unnecessarily tattling on himself vs caring what some loser on a board 5 people read posts. Because if I am outed, I am going scorched earth. Hundred + pages documenting the fraud perpetuated on the courts that ruin all his open lawsuits. I go to the Florida Bar to show his idiot lawyer was shown the law and decided to lie to the courts instead. I go and remind the Florida Bar of Jakey's little stunt regarding UPL and promise to not even refile... then did...
Any collections campaign case, over. Any custo case, over. All 3a10's, shut down. Once the judge see's he was defrauded, you think he isn't on the phone with the SEC? Sanctions, penalties, law licenses lost, red flags all over the place. House of cards CRUMBLE. The only reason he can keep this going is because I am still anonymous and therefore limited on how and where I get involved. If that changes, oh boy. He cooked son.
No clue what you are talking about, my point is, if there will be a defamation civil suit against certain parties, I dont think there is a defendable argument based on someones accusations of criminal intent, if there are no criminal charges pending against the parties being defamed , and in this case with Libelous proofs
Is Jakey done selling yet?
Told him to ask his mom....
But but but I don't get handouts. I worked hard by selling blood diamonds and roadside grapefruits durrrrrrrp.
Would the Regina E Noch Irrevocable QTIP Trust be the trust fund that Jake said he didn't know about?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175051016
$SONG: Momma Regina Noch Liquidating Properties !!
MUST BE NICE - to be able to buy and flip dirt lots for $MILLIONS while "funding" your dumb ass punk shit-for-no-brains KID who is "on the teat" of momma even in his mid twenties....
YES INDEED, the company is a printing press for him, its all about getting the shares into deposit and selling. At some point you would think the volume will just dry up. It won't be long until the stock is at a penny again, and FINRA does not like multiple reverses and forwards within such a short time frame. This CEO is unstable at best.
Jake. Back in your Brick God Sosa days you did a track with Prince Dre. Prince Dre is not a parody rapper and is now having a fairly successful career, with 1,145,922 monthly listeners on Spotify.
1,145,922 monthly listeners on Spotify is nowhere near enough to earn a few thousand dollars a month in royalties, so how are you managing to earn that with
0 monthly Spotify listeners for your old Brick God Sosa tracks;
0 monthly Spotify listeners for your old Damu Brazy tracks;
0 monthly Spotify listeners for your old Jake Noch tracks;
And just 61 monthly Spotify listeners for your recent Jake P Noch tracks?
Is this what Shareholder value looks like!?
Brick God Sosa Demo? This is what parody rap is Jake, your rap was just 💩
Unknown, it looks like we are about to find out because he has a court date for appearance. He filed things a week ago.
I wonder if Jake is paying that attorney... That Motion to Dismiss was filed 6 months ago.
https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/33487-fl-stephen-gebeloff-1272422.html
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11-2024-CA-000466-0001-01 Order to dismiss hearing on Oct 2nd, on ZOOM so you know I'll be listening!!! Jake's idiot lawyer never even responded.
🎼🎵🎶🎤Early in the morning, risin' to the street
Light me up that cigarette, and I'll strap shoes on my feet
Got to find the reason, reason things went wrong
Got to find a reason why my money's all gone...
Jake doesnt even care anymore, just putting up 10k walls now.
Jake and his idiot lawyer think they can just make up whatever they want and then change it as they go. That may work on companies that just want these losers to go away, but not for folks like me. I play to win, I want him in jail and will go to every gov't agency to do so making sure they are aware of everything he has done and is planning to do.
This is over, he is done, just look at what I did to Stephen Brown... hasn't been able to do a thing since.
Bwahahaha you think once your in a court hearing for defamation you could pull a magic rabbit out ur azz, and just change the reason why? Bwahbmp aaha
The best part is, no matter how much Jake and his idiot lawyer threaten defamation, he knows he is the one dumping shares on shareholders and trying to hide it and that means we are speaking FACTS. Defamation requires someone to tell untruths they know are untrue. To bad, so sad.
Jake and his idiot lawyer don't want the smoke, as soon as they actually bring anyone to court I will ensure they know you lied to the courts about knowing identities and provide them with fraud details. It will be beautiful. Jake could have pulled this all off, but he threatened friends and I don't let that happen.
OTC companies scam all the time, but they take their licking on social media and try again. Jake's mistake was being a sensitive narcissist and thought he cold bully people into going away. Sorry, I don't play like that, I win.
Maybe Jake can address why his company isn't recognized in this? I thought he claimed to be the fifth music rights organization with 7.4% market share but according to this his company isn't even listed or recognized as the fifth legitimate music rights organization. Why is it that in every legitimate major publication he and his company are never mentioned, recognized or acknowledged as a legitimate company in the space? The only one that seems to recognize it is Jake.
New Billboard piece on US PROs. Obviously it doesn't mention Jake's pretend one, but this is interesting:
DAVID RUSSELL FOLEY USBOP Inmate 13141-111 did exactly this same play: reverse split followed by forward split in HVEL/NTGL. His criminal trial is scheduled to start in Federal court (US District Court (N.D., IL) on 15 October 2024 for securities fraud arising from his HVEL/NTGL scam.
Case: 1:21-cr-00019 in Federal court Northern Illinois district.
The "takeover a shell then reverse split and almost immediately then forward split" is an old scammer play from The Pennyscammers Playbook (2nd Ed.).
FOLEY will be going BACK to Federal prison for what is going to be his third independent Federal felony CONviction. He pulled part of the HVEL/NTGL caper from prison during his last prison vacation.
Shaky Jake could be a cellie of FOLEY, or of BENNIE BLANKENSHIP, or of JUSTIN(E) COSTELLO - butt top bunk only! IMO, Shaky Jake will be a top-bunker somewhere in the BOP system, butt it will take a few years unless he pleads~OUTT on a plea agreement and does nott go to trial. I love watching these pennyscammer cartoonish clowns.
Shaky Jake could be providing us with several years of ennertainment. I've had ten (10) years of ennertainment from DAVID FOLEY and it is still going! During that time, this will be second time in Federal prison. Ya just cannot beat these pennyscammers for quality comedic ennertainment.
That's the thing he already has the shares. This is going well below a penny into dubs and then into trips.
Wouldn't put it past this kid to split it all the way back into the trips again. His post on X about wizards and the wave of a magical wand with massive RS followed by a forward split shows his premeditation to do this all along. This kid has quite the history of attempting fraudulent cash grab schemes. Jake doesn't care about stock price for shareholder value, Jake cares about stock price for liquidity to continue dumping his 3a10 shares.
Good ole CEO Will be printing more shares, look for this one to be 10 to 20 cents soon.
Wow, another 1k shares just blasted today. Someone needs some dolla dolla bills ya'll. About $2k on bid to .80... those look tasty I'm sure!
Was more for the people in the back reading :)
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