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Spotify has confirmed that most of its music catalogue was scraped by a group and hosted on the internet for millions to freely download. The group behind the data scrape claims it was able to access ...

Pirate activist group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped the entirety of Spotify’s music library and plans to release it through torrents. Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive ...

A piracy group called "Anna's Archive" made a bold statement, claiming that it scraped Spotify's platform and was able to acquire over 86 million songs worth 300 terabytes (TB). According to a new ...

A pirate activist group has allegedly accessed and prepared to distribute large parts of Spotify’s music catalogue, including metadata and potentially audio files. This was posted in the open-source ...

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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 ...

UPDATE 12/23: Spotify has shared more on the actions it has taken since discovering its service had been scraped for data. A spokesperson for Spotify told PCMag, “Spotify has identified and disabled ...