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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.

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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, ...

The platform has disabled a bunch of accounts as a result of the breach E-BANDITS have snatched a huge chunk of music from Spotify and are preparing to release it online for everyone. A piracy ...

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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 ...

Anna's Archive, a massive library of pirated content, announced that it had scraped Spotify and backed up the music metadata for 256 million songs and 86 million music files. Anna's Archive has ...

Streaming platform Spotify confirmed on Monday its library had been scraped by a third party, after a pirate activist group claimed it released metadata for the platform’s entire music catalogue.