Activists claim to have scraped most of Spotify, planning release
An activist archiving group says it has scraped a large part of Spotify’s library of music.
Anna’s Archive, a self-described “open source search engine for shadow libraries,” announced in a blog post that the pirated Spotify files will be a “preservation archive,” meant to archive the snapshot of music for future generations.
Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million tracks; Spotify says its platform hosts over 100 million tracks. The group has already released a database of metadata from Spotify’s collections, having reportedly scraped 256 million rows’ worth, per Billboard, with plans to release music files later down the line.
Such a large corpus of publicly available music data would be a gold mine to AI companies, looking for fresh data to train their models. Spotify told Billboard that it is actively investigating the incident.
Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million tracks; Spotify says its platform hosts over 100 million tracks. The group has already released a database of metadata from Spotify’s collections, having reportedly scraped 256 million rows’ worth, per Billboard, with plans to release music files later down the line.
Such a large corpus of publicly available music data would be a gold mine to AI companies, looking for fresh data to train their models. Spotify told Billboard that it is actively investigating the incident.
