Spotify disables accounts after open-source group scrapes 86M songs
4 months ago
- #Spotify
- #Data Scraping
- #Copyright
- Spotify disabled accounts after an open-source group scraped 86 million songs.
- Anna's Archive published a database of metadata and songs from Spotify.
- Spotify called the scraping unlawful and implemented new safeguards.
- Anna's Archive aims to preserve music, citing it as a 'preservation archive'.
- The scraped data includes 86 million music files, covering 99.6% of Spotify listens.
- Top songs on Spotify have more streams than the bottom 20-100 million combined.
- Anna's Archive, known for copyright violations, emerged after Z-Library's shutdown.
- Google removed nearly 800 million links to Anna's Archive due to takedown requests.