Pirate Group Claims to Have Copied Entire Spotify Music Library
Originally Published 20 days ago — by PCMag
A pirate activist group has scraped and copied nearly all of Spotify's music catalog, including metadata for 256 million tracks and audio files for 86 million, claiming to build the world's first music preservation archive. Spotify is investigating the incident, which involved illicit tactics to access some audio files, and the group plans to release the data publicly in order of popularity.