Anna's Archive has scraped Spotify: 86M files (300TB), covering 99.6% of listens. The activist group plans to release music via bulk torrents, grouped by popularity, calling it a "preservation archive." Spotify says it disabled accounts related to the rip, added safeguards, and is monitoring for suspicious scraping.

A group of hacktivists have scraped and archived millions of music files, album art, and metadata from Spotify, in a move that could potentially let anyone clone one of the world’s largest music strea...

Since Spotify licenses most of the music on its platform from record labels and rights holders, scraping audio files and redistributing them through torrents violates copyright law in many countries, ...