US EditionSpotify Says It's Shutting Down Access to Site That Scraped Its Music Library
- This past week, Spotify disabled some user accounts and implemented new safeguards while investigating the scraping and taking action against Anna's Archive.
- On Dec. 20, Anna's Archive said it was distributing 300 terabytes of data for 256 million music tracks, framing the release as a preservation effort and soliciting donations.
- The group's initial torrent contained metadata including album art, song title, and artist covering 99.9 percent of Spotify's 256 million tracks, while Anna's Archive said it archived around 86 million songs representing 99.6 percent of listens.
- Last month, Google removed 749 million links to Anna's Archive domains, and Spotify said it stands with the artist community against piracy, working with industry partners to protect creators.
- The group says it discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale despite focusing on books, and its blog called the release `This is by far the largest music metadata database that is publicly available`, revealing genre and tempo metadata.
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Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify
Hacktivists with the group Anna’s Archive — a search engine for shadow libraries, which are unauthorized collections of digital content — say they’ve found a way to download virtually the entirety of Spotify for preservation. In a blog post detailing their work, the archivists say they’ve archived the audio of some 86 million songs so far, representing 99.6 percent of total listens on the streaming service. They scraped metadata from nearly the …
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Jornal de NegóciosThe attack occurred on Tuesday and the technical teams continue to investigate the extent of the incident and its impact. A group of hackers Anna's Archives claimed the author of the attack.
The Spotify Music Streaming Service announced monthly that it has disabled the accounts of a group of hackers who claimed to have "save" millions of music files and metadata of this online platform, according to Swissinfo.ch. An action on which experts call an unprecedented violation of the protection of digital rights.
Anna's Archive, a non-profit organization that is mainly dedicated to copying books that makes available for download through the torrent system, claims that it has backed up almost all of Spotify that includes not only music files, but also metadata. All that material, 86 million songs that comprise 99.6% of popularly grouped listeners, is now available to download it. You have to have, yes, many hard drives to store them, no less than 300 TB o…
Activist online archive scrapes virtually all of Spotify
Anna's Archive has scraped almost 300TB of data from Spotify. In a blog post, the site claimed to have downloaded metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million music files. All of the metadata is currently available to torrent, with the music tracks to be available later. — Read the rest The post Activist online archive scrapes virtually all of Spotify appeared first on Boing Boing.
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