The shadow library search engine and catalogue Anna’s Archive has gone down, as users discovered that they could no longer ...
In an attempt to create an authoritative list of torrents meant to represent ‘all music ever produced,’ Anna's Archive also circumvents Spotify's digital rights management systems ...
Spotify has released a statement regarding a group that illegally scraped millions of files from its music library ...
Anna's Archive justified its Spotify scraping by describing it as a "humble attempt to start a 'preservation archive' for music" in order to protect "humanity's musical heritage" from "destruction by ...
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 ...
Anna’s Archive’s .org domain has been suspended, but operators say it’s likely unrelated to their Spotify “shadow library,” ...
A pirate activist group said it ‘backed up’ Spotify’s music catalogue, claiming it put metadata for 256 million tracks online. The streaming platform said it’s ‘actively monitoring’ the incident.View ...
This is not the Christmas present that Spotify would have been hoping for: a huge chunk of its metadata being released on filesharing.
Simone Tata had called me unexpectedly, with an engrossing tale that involved her illustrious in-laws — Sir Ratan Tata, the ...
Anna's Archive, billed as the largest truly-open library in human history, now includes roughly 300TB of Spotify tracks and metadata.
Spotify has disabled user accounts after an open-source shadow library published files containing tens of millions of songs ...
Spotify says it has launched new protections against "anti-copyright attacks" after the open-source library / pirate activist ...