Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library
4 months ago
- #Spotify
- #Data Scraping
- #Copyright
- Spotify disabled nefarious user accounts involved in unlawful scraping and implemented new safeguards.
- A pirate activist group scraped and released metadata from Spotify, including 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files.
- Only metadata has been released so far, with the audio files to be distributed via P2P networks totaling 300 terabytes.
- Spotify is investigating unauthorized access and scraping of public metadata and circumvention of DRM.
- The incident could allow individuals to create personal free versions of Spotify, raising copyright concerns.
- Anna's Archive, known for preserving books and papers, described the scrape as part of its mission to preserve music culture.