Anna's Archive published a torrents-based Spotify backup: a 300TB release of Spotify catalog metadata today, with staged ...

Reports surfaced early Monday (Dec. 22) that a "pirate activist group" had scraped metadata from Spotify's music library and released it to the public. Billboard identified an open source search ...

After a shadow library site claimed to have created a metadata archive of 99.6 percent of Spotify's music, the streaming service said it's shutting down accounts and creating safeguards to protect its ...

Spotify suffers a massive data breach, as a group of pirates scrape 300 terabytes of music files and metadata from the ...

According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest ...

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

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

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

Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped nearly all of Spotify, acquiring 300TB of data, for a so-called "preservation" project.

This is not the Christmas present that Spotify would have been hoping for: a huge chunk of its metadata being released on filesharing.

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Anna's Archive made the metadata library immediately available for public download, and says it will release the rest of the ...