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

Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata An activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is ...

A pirate activist group has allegedly accessed and prepared to distribute large parts of Spotify's music catalogue, including ...

Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The ...

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, ...

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Spotify has come under scrutiny after a piracy group claimed scraping the platform’s music library, allegedly accessing 86 million tracks. Sparking concerns ove ...

Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group that claimed to have "backed up" ...

Spotify has confirmed a massive unauthorised scrape of its music library after Anna’s Archive claimed it backed up metadata and audio files for millions of tracks.

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.View ...

Anna’s Archive, best known for indexing pirated books and academic papers, now says it has scraped nearly Spotify’s entire ...