Spotify has taken action after following reports that a group scraped its library with plans to make it publicly available as a "preservation archive." Reports surfaced early Monday (Dec. 22) that a ...

A pirate activist group said it ‘backed up’ Spotify’s music catalogue, claiming it put metadata for 256 million tracks online. The streaming platform said it’s ‘actively monitoring’ the incident.

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Pirate library Anna’s Archive has claimed that it scraped around 86 million tracks from Spotify. They frame this as a preservation effort. The data totals nearly 300TB and is set to be shared via ...

Spotify says it's cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped an immense amount of Spotify's metadata and audio files from the ...

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The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of ...

Spotify said it had disabled the accounts which scraped its platform (Picture: Shutterstock) An activist group which says it wants to back-up the entirety of human culture claims it has illegally ...

Billboard reported that a blog post on open-source search engine Anna’s Archive drew attention to an incident where an activist piracy group had scraped “256 million rows of track metadata and 86 ...

Pirate site Anna’s Archive, which describes itself as “the largest truly open library in human history,” says that it has scraped 99.6% of all the music people listen to from Spotify. It says the ...

Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata An activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is ...