Reports surfaced early Monday (Dec. 22) that a "pirate activist group" had scraped metadata from Spotify's music library and released it to the public. Billboard identified an open source search ...

After a shadow library site claimed to have created a metadata archive of 99.6 percent of Spotify's music, the streaming service said it's shutting down accounts and creating safeguards to protect its ...

According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest ...

Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group that claimed to have ...

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Spotify is investigating claims that a piracy-linked group has millions of music tracks and data from the platform without ...

Anna’s Archive” claimed it scraped 86 million songs from Spotify—revealing some wild things about people’s favorite music.

In a blog post titled "Backing up Spotify," Anna’s Archive explains how it believes it has built the “world’s first 'preservation archive' for music” through the move. It says it has the metadata of ...

Anna's Archive made the metadata library immediately available for public download, and says it will release the rest of the ...