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World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs

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The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of metadata and music files in bulk torrents. According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest […]

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Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify

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Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadataAn activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is preparing to release them online.Observers said the apparent leak could boost AI companies looking for material to develop their technology. Continue reading…

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