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

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.

In a blog post titled "Backing up Spotify," Anna’s Archive explains how it believes it has built the “world’s first 'preservation archive' for music” through the move. It says it has the metadata of ...

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

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