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Judge Dismisses RBX Lawsuit Alleging Billions of Fake Drake Streams on Spotify

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A judge has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit alleging that streaming platform Spotify was "turning a blind eye" to 37 billion allegedly illicit Drake song streams.

An earlier version of the suit , lead by plaintiff and Long Beach rapper RBX, who’s the cousin of Snoop Dogg , was dismissed in June. An amended version was filed just over two weeks later, in mid-July.

In a 16-page legal document obtained by Complex, U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton found that RBX, real name Eric Dwayne Collins, could not back up allegations of Drake and Spotify inflating streams and deceiving platform users.

The decision, written by Judge Josephine L.…

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