Spotify responds to ‘nefarious’ 300TB scraping by internet activists

Anna's Archive published a torrents-based Spotify backup: a 300TB release of Spotify catalog metadata today, with staged ...

Pirate group Anna's Archive says it has scraped Spotify in its entirety

Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The group acquired metadata for around 256 million tracks, with 86 million actual ...
Dexerto

Spotify responds to claims of 300TB data grab from piracy-linked site

Spotify is investigating claims that a piracy-linked group has millions of music tracks and data from the platform without ...
CNET

Spotify Says It's Shutting Down Access to Site That Scraped Its Music Library

After a shadow library site claimed to have created a metadata archive of 99.6 percent of Spotify's music, the streaming service said it's shutting down accounts and creating safeguards to protect its ...
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Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post What would happen to the world's music collections if ...

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OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year

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A Pirate Group Says It Copied Nearly All of Spotify’s Music Catalog

In a blog post titled "Backing up Spotify," Anna’s Archive explains how it believes it has built the “world’s first 'preservation archive' for music” through the move. It says it has the metadata of ...