Danish man on trial over alleged £500k music streaming fraud

> Lidell and Matthiessen said that in order to generate 1m kroner [$95.5k], a track would need to be streamed 20m times and would have to be entirely owned by the artist, songwriter and label, which is incredibly rare.

Interpolating linearly, an artist looking to make $10k needs to write, play, own their music and have it play 2m times. Possible copyright infringement aside, I admire the guts required to tell a judge "we pay artists so little that fraud is the only possible explanation".