A judge has permanently tossed out a class action claiming Spotify broke the law by turning a "blind eye" to bots that boosted Drake and other stars.

Drake claps at the end of the game between the Sacramento Kings and the Toronto Raptors on Nov. 2, 2024. Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images

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A class-action lawsuit claiming Spotify allows billions of fake bot streams of Drake and other stars has been dismissed again by a federal judge — this time for good.

The case was filed last year by a rapper named RBX (Eric Collins), who accused the music streaming giant of turning a “blind eye” to the problem of streaming fraud by major artists, thus depriving tens of thousands of others of fair royalties.

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Though the lawsuit was dismissed earlier this year as too “vague” to move forward, a judge gave RBX a chance to fix his case’s problems. But on Monday (Oct.…