Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped almost all of Spotify. The archive includes metadata for 256 million tracks and audio for 86 million songs. The total size of the archive is nearly 300TB, being ...

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 ...

At least nine rock or metal bands removed their music from Spotify in 2025, with many of them moving off the platform in the past six months. Here is a breakdown of all of the rock and metal bands ...

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 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 ...

Spotify confirmed the incident and says it has disabled user accounts linked to it, but that won’t un-leak the music. Spotify confirmed the incident and says it has disabled user accounts linked to it ...

A popular archive hub says it has published a Spotify backup as bulk torrents totaling 300TB or roughly 86 million music files – and Spotify has confirmed the breach. The group, called Anna’s Archive, ...

Songs featured in the HBO Max-Crave romance drama series are experiencing drastic streaming increases, including “All The Things She Said,” both the T.A.T.u and Harrison version, and Wolf Parade’s ...

Spotify says it is implementing new anti-piracy measures in response. Credit: picture alliance / Contributor / picture alliance via Getty Images Spotify's library was scraped and released by pirate ...

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