Technically, that is Fraud. Fraud is a criminal offence (ie they are scamming money from you). So if this happens to one of you I would contact the FBI about this if you are in the US. This is just another fraud scheme like Madoff, etc (although smaller, fraud is fraud). If somebody is claiming to own copyrights to content they don't and they are getting YOUR cash flow, even for a small time, that is a scam like would be seen on American Greed.
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Technically, that is Fraud. Fraud is a criminal offence (ie they are scamming money from you). So if this happens to one of you I would contact the FBI about this if you are in the US. This is just another fraud scheme like Madoff, etc (although smaller, fraud is fraud). If somebody is claiming to own copyrights to content they don't and they are getting YOUR cash flow, even for a small time, that is a scam like would be seen on American Greed.