US EditionSpotify Accused Of Ignoring ‘Billions’ Of Fraudulent Drake Streams—What We Know About Bot Streams
Rapper RBX alleges Spotify allowed billions of fake streams inflating Drake's plays, causing hundreds of millions in losses to legitimate artists by skewing royalty payments.
- On Sunday, rapper RBX filed a federal class action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleging Spotify ignored `billions of fraudulent streams` on Drake's songs for similarly situated artists.
- In recent years, streaming fraud has worsened as artificial intelligence and spoofing technologies enable fake users and bots to siphon revenue from rightsholders via Spotify's royalty pool system.
- Plaintiffs' filings allege individual Spotify accounts listen to Drake for 23 hours a day and streams originate from locations with zero residential addresses, causing rights holders alleged to have lost hundreds of millions of dollars.
- RBX seeks class certification to represent thousands of artists and more than one hundred thousand rightsholders, accusing Spotify of negligence and violating California unfair competition law while calling its anti-fraud policies inadequate at best.
- Spotify responded that its systems are working, cites a last year indictment where Michael Smith stole $10,000,000 but only $60,000 came from Spotify, notes recent measures to curb third‑party services that guarantee streams, and its shares have surged this year above $100 billion.
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