Spotify被控纵容Drake刷量集体诉讼遭法官驳回且不得再诉 RBX指控未获支持
据 Billboard 10 月 26 日报道，美国联邦法官当日驳回一桩指控流媒体平台 Spotify 纵容机器人刷量的集体诉讼，并裁定不得再次起诉（with prejudice），案件就此终结。诉讼称，Spotify 对 Drake 等明星歌曲高达数十亿次的虚假播放「睁一只眼闭一只眼」，令其他艺人分得的版税受损。
该案由说唱歌手 RBX（本名埃里克·柯林斯，Eric Collins）于去年提起，指控 Spotify 对头部艺人的流媒体造假问题视而不见，剥夺了成千上万其他艺人的公平版税。今年早些时候，该诉讼曾因表述过于含糊被驳回，法官给予原告修改诉状的机会；10 月 26 日周一，法官约瑟芬·斯塔顿（Josephine Staton）以附带偏见方式驳回起诉，诉讼永久终结。
斯塔顿在裁决中写道，除关于 Spotify 对 Drake 等热门艺人的人工刷量「睁一只眼闭一只眼」的结论性陈述外，诉状没有提出任何其他指控，说明 Spotify 如何选择性执行其反人工刷量政策。她同时驳回了原告的疏忽索赔，认为 Spotify 对原告不负有保护其免受机器人刷量影响的特殊义务，并驳回其依据加州《不正当竞争法》提出的索赔，认定 Spotify 未就其反机器人政策作出欺骗性虚假陈述，也未以损害原告的方式不公平地适用这些政策。
尽管 Drake 并非被告，诉状多次点名他作为这一问题的代表，称「史上播放量最高的艺人」奥布里·德雷克·格雷厄姆（Aubrey Drake Graham，即 Drake）的歌曲产生了数十亿次欺诈性播放。原告律师曾在 2025 年 11 月称，Spotify 的反刷量政策「不过是摆设」，公司宁愿无所作为，因为机器人刷量对其盈利有利。Spotify 表示，公司在检测、清除与惩罚虚假播放方面投入巨大，拥有「同类最佳」的反造假系统；对本次裁决，Spotify 拒绝置评。
Judge Permanently Dismisses Spotify Class Action Claiming Drake Gets Billions of Fake Plays
A class-action lawsuit claiming Spotify allows billions of fake bot streams of Drake and other stars has been dismissed by a federal judge, this time permanently, Billboard reported on October 26. The case accused the streaming giant of turning a blind eye to streaming fraud by major artists, depriving tens of thousands of other artists of fair royalties.
The case was filed last year by rapper RBX (Eric Collins). It was dismissed earlier this year as too vague to move forward, though the judge gave RBX a chance to fix the problems. On Monday, October 26, Judge Josephine Staton rejected the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning the litigation is now permanently over.
"Other than conclusory statements about Spotify turning a 'blind eye' to artificial streaming of tracks from popular artists like Drake, the [lawsuit] contains no other allegations about how Spotify selectively enforces its policies against artificial streaming," Staton wrote in her ruling, first reported by Billboard. She rejected the negligence claims, ruling that Spotify owed RBX no special duty to protect him from bots, and rejected his claims under California's Unfair Competition Law, ruling that the company had made no deceptive misrepresentations about its anti-bot policies or applied them unfairly in ways that hurt him.
Although Drake was not named as a defendant, the lawsuit repeatedly mentioned him as emblematic of the broader problem, claiming billions of fraudulent streams had been generated for songs by "the most streamed artist of all time," Aubrey Drake Graham. RBX's lawyers argued in November 2025 that Spotify's anti-fraud policies were "nothing more than window dressing." Spotify has said it heavily invests in systems to detect, remove and penalize fake streams, resulting in a "best-in-class" system. Spotify declined to comment on the ruling.
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