Do you think fraud should be legal if it's only targeting large entities like Spotify? Would that make the world a better place?
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.
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.