Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata An activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is ...

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 has taken action after following reports that a group scraped its library with plans to make it publicly available as a "preservation archive." Reports surfaced early Monday (Dec. 22) that a ...

Spotify’s nearly entire music catalog has been scraped by Anna’s Archive, a major shadow digital library best known for its collection of books and academic papers. It plans to release 300TB of music ...

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, ...

At least nine rock or metal bands removed their music from Spotify in 2025, with many of them moving off the platform in the past six months. Here is a breakdown of all of the rock and metal bands ...