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Annas Archive reportedly backed up Spotify’s catalog to preserve it

The nonprofit shadow library known as Anna’s Archive says it has quietly copied almost everything on Spotify, turning the ...

How to use empty data centers after an AI crash

Construction of US server farms has risen eightfold from 2019, raising the risk of a bust if chatbots fizzle. In this ...
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Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify

Volunteer hacktivists working for Anna's Archive have managed to scrape all the metadata of the Spotify library.

Who is Anna’s Archives and was Spotify user data stolen in mega heist? Data leak explained and see if stolen files were released online

Who is Anna’s Archives and was Spotify user data stolen in mega heist? A piracy group claims it scraped 86 million Spotify ...

The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! (Updated: New Spotify statement)

Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped nearly all of Spotify, acquiring 300TB of data, for a so-called "preservation" project.

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

Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of them.

A 300TB pirate archive claims to contain nearly every song ever streamed on Spotify

Anna's Archive, a shadow library search engine, recently scraped Spotify to create a pirate archive containing 86 million songs and metadata for 256 million tracks.