It turns out allegedly scraping Spotify’s entire library wasn’t a great idea. Now, the major labels and the DSP itself have ...

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A Spotify music app sign is depicted in the city center in Warsaw, Poland, on December 5, 2025. (Photo by Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Spotify was recently hacked by the pirate activist ...

Pirate activist group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped the entirety of Spotify’s music library and plans to release it through torrents. Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive ...

Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The group acquired metadata for around 256 million tracks, with 86 million actual ...

Spotify says it's cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped an immense amount of Spotify's metadata and audio files from the ...

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 ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shadow library Anna's Archive has "backed up Spotify," scraping 86 million audio files amounting to 300TB of data. The group ...

Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group that claimed to have "backed up" millions of Spotify's music files and metadata. The group Anna ...

A popular archive hub says it has published a Spotify backup as bulk torrents totaling 300TB or roughly 86 million music files – and Spotify has confirmed the breach. The group, called Anna’s Archive, ...

Many people enjoy using Spotify but wish they could save songs offline without paying for Premium. Spotify protects all its music with digital rights management, so downloading tracks directly from ...