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All Spotify Songs Uploaded As 300 TB Torrent By Pirate Activist Group Triggering Memefest Online

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All Spotify Songs Uploaded As 300 TB Torrent By Pirate Activist Group Triggering Memefest Online



Piracy activist group Anna Archive archived around 86 million music files scrapped from streaming giant Spotify. The collection represents around 99.6% of the listens on the music streaming app. The size of the pirated data, according to the group, is a little under 300TB.

Remarking on the same, Anna Archive in its latest blog noted,

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity.

This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database, with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs.

It further added the motive behind its shenanigans

A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale. We saw a role for us here to build a music archive primarily aimed at preservation.

It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music that is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

In a statement to Billboard, Spotify remarked that “an investigation into unauthorized access identified that a third party scraped public metadata and used illicit tactics to circumvent DRM to access some of the platform’s audio files.”

Meanwhile, this is how the internet reacted. With memes, of course.

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