[lemontheme]

You're presupposing fraud and illegality. That's what I'm questioning.

That said, some good can come of this in the sense that it will (hopefully) discourage these kind of schemes. They don't create value and they harm smaller competitors, who now need to divert resources to increasingly sophisticated bot detection.

[JasonADrury]

How do you see this not being fraud? Clearly the intent was to deceive Spotify and obtain money by means of false pretenses, or do you disagree with that characterization?

What problems do you see in the indictment? https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.62...

The steps he took to conceal his activities certainly seem to suggest that he was intentionally deceptive.