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 ...

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

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

The group says it gathered data in the interest of "preservation," while Spotify says it shut down unlawful accounts.

A hacker group claims to have scraped Spotify’s most popular music tracks and metadata, and is calling its booty the “world’s first preservation archive for music.” ...

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Spotify is probing claims that Anna's Archive scraped its platform, releasing huge torrents of music metadata and audio files.

Anna’s Archive” claimed it scraped 86 million songs from Spotify—revealing some wild things about people’s favorite music.

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

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Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post What would happen to the world's music collections if ...