{"id":362455,"date":"2025-12-22T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362455\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:11:10","slug":"pirate-library-rips-86-million-of-the-most-popular-songs-on-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362455\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Spotify says it has launched new protections against \u201canti-copyright attacks\u201d after the open-source library \/ pirate activist group Anna\u2019s Archive announced it\u2019s ripped 86 million songs from the platform that it plans to make available in torrents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/business\/streaming\/spotify-music-library-leak-1236143970\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as reported earlier by Billboard<\/a>. According <a href=\"https:\/\/annas-archive.li\/blog\/backing-up-spotify.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to the group<\/a>, \u201cWe have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, ordering by popularity descending. While this only represents 37 percent of songs, it represents around 99.6 percent of listens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The first torrent released says it contains metadata, such as album art, song title, and artist name, belonging to 99.9 percent of Spotify\u2019s 256 million tracks. The group says it plans to make the 300TB worth of music files available at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Anna\u2019s Archive, which describes itself as \u201cthe world\u2019s largest shadow library,\u201d says it \u201cbacked up Spotify\u201d as part of an attempt to create a \u201cpreservation archive\u201d for music using Spotify\u2019s \u201cpopularity\u201d metric to determine which tracks to download first. It says the metadata reveals information like which genre has the most tracks (Electronic\/Dance, with 520,075), and that 120BPM is the most popular tempo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Though Anna\u2019s Archive primarily focuses on backing up books and research documents, its blog post says it \u201cdiscovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale.\u201d Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/transparencyreport.google.com\/copyright\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google said<\/a> it removed 749 million links to Anna\u2019s Archive domains from its search engine due to copyright complaints, <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as reported by TorrentFreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In a statement to The Verge, Spotify spokesperson Laura Batey said the company \u201chas identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts engaged in unlawful scraping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Spotify\u2019s full statement, from Batey:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">Spotify has identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping. We\u2019ve implemented new safeguards for these types of anti-copyright attacks and are actively monitoring for suspicious behavior. Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy, and we are actively working with our industry partners to protect creators and defend their rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spotify says it has launched new protections against \u201canti-copyright attacks\u201d after the open-source library \/ pirate activist group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,75,44,6758],"class_list":["post-362455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}