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.

The scrape allegedly accessed 86 million audio files. Spotify says it has "identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping." By Mitchell Peters Update (Dec. 22, ...

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 ...

In an attempt to create an authoritative list of torrents meant to represent ‘all music ever produced,’ Anna's Archive also circumvents Spotify's digital rights management systems MANILA, Philippines ...

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The Spotify logo on a smartphone with a disco light nearby - Credit: Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images The world’s largest music streaming service has been scraped by a pirate activist ...

An activist or pirate group has claimed that it scraped almost all the popular music library from the music streaming platform Spotify. It further claims that the operation to pirate the content is a ...

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 ...

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