Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify

Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

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Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify
 Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify

Spotify says it has launched new protections against “anti-copyright attacks” after the open-source library / pirate activist group Anna’s Archive announced it’s ripped 86 million songs from the platform that it plans to make available in torrents, as reported earlier by Billboard. According to the group, “We have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, […]

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A 300TB Spotify backup just landed, what you can get today

Anna’s Archive published a torrents-based Spotify backup: a 300TB release of Spotify catalog metadata today, with staged audio files to follow. Here is what’s included, what’s missing, and why it exists.
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Netflix is betting on podcasts to become the new daytime talk show

Netflix is making exclusive deals with podcast studios to compete with YouTube, but podcasters have mixed feelings.

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