Two charged with stealing $20M in elaborate YouTube music royalty scam

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"Two men have been charged with allegedly running a years-long music royalty scam, in which they collected more than $20 million in payments from YouTube by falsely claiming to hold the rights to 50,000 Spanish-language songs."