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Pirate Group Creates 300TB Shadow Library of Spotify's Top Songs

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Source: Engadget
Pirate Group Creates 300TB Shadow Library of Spotify's Top Songs
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Anna's Archive claims to have scraped and archived metadata for 256 million tracks from Spotify, creating the largest publicly available music database aimed at preservation, though this activity violates copyright laws and Spotify has taken measures against such scraping.

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  1. Pirate group Anna's Archive says it has scraped Spotify in its entirety  Engadget
  2. Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group  Billboard
  3. Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify  The Guardian
  4. World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs  Ars Technica
  5. The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! (Updated: New Spotify statement)  Android Authority

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