A pirate group says it copied nearly all of Spotify's music catalog2025-12-22 11:38 by Daniela
The world's largest music streaming service has been scraped by a pirate activist group. According to a blog post from Anna's Archive, it says it gained access to over 250 million pieces of metadata and millions of audio files from the streamer. 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 256 million tracks, plus the audio files for 86 million of those songs. The group says that represents 99.6% of Spotify listens. Anna's Archive released the metadata on its torrents website and says it plans to release audio files at a later date. That will be followed by more metadata and album artwork. It says it will be releasing the files in "order of popularity," using Spotify's own metrics to decide what to release first. Spotify says it's actively investigating the incident, confirming to Billboard that the data scraping took place. Read more -here-
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