Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

A pirate activist group has scraped and released metadata from Spotify, including 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files, according to a blog post on Anna’s Archive. Spotify has confirmed the unauthorized access and is investigating the incident. The group plans to distribute the data on P2P networks, potentially creating a personal free version of Spotify with enough storage. Anna’s Archive claims the project is part of its mission to preserve knowledge and culture.