An activist group scraped metadata from over 250 million Spotify tracks, as well as audio files for 86 million of them, which ...

Claims have surfaced suggesting that a huge amount of data linked to music streaming platform Spotify has been scraped and ...

The nonprofit shadow library known as Anna’s Archive says it has quietly copied almost everything on Spotify, turning the ...

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Spotify for Creators, the rebranded successor to Anchor and Spotify for Podcasters, is often framed as a free hosting and ...

Reports surfaced early Monday (Dec. 22) that a "pirate activist group" had scraped metadata from Spotify's music library and ...

The shadow library targeted metadata in what it calls a preservation effort and said it's considering allowing the ...

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

Pirate library Anna’s Archive has claimed that it scraped around 86 million tracks from Spotify. They frame this as a ...

Anna's Archive, a shadow library search engine, recently scraped Spotify to create a pirate archive containing 86 million songs and metadata for 256 million tracks.