Spotify Beats Bot-Farming Lawsuit That Centered on Drake

Spotify has shaken off a legal challenge over streaming manipulation. A federal judge dismissed a class-action bot-farming lawsuit led by veteran rapper RBX — a suit that, notably, trained nearly all of its attention on Drake.

The case argued that bot-driven streams distort the platform's economics. With the dismissal, Spotify avoids a courtroom fight that threatened to pull one of the genre's biggest stars into a broader debate about how streams are counted and paid.