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Spotify says it's cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped an immense amount of Spotify's metadata and audio files from the ...

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 ...

Spotify says it is implementing new anti-piracy measures in response. Credit: picture alliance / Contributor / picture alliance via Getty Images Spotify's library was scraped and released by pirate ...

Pirates have scraped over 300 terabytes worth of music files and metadata from Spotify. The data was scraped in the name of "preservation" and the group is planning to share it via P2P systems in bulk ...

The scrape allegedly accessed 86 million audio files. Spotify says it has "identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping." By Mitchell Peters Update (Dec. 22, ...