"An activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is preparing to release them online. Observers said the apparent leak could boost AI companies looking for material to develop their technology. A group called Anna's Archive said it had scraped 86m music files from Spotify and 256m rows of metadata such as artist and album names. Spotify, which hosts more than 100m tracks, confirmed that the leak does not represent its entire inventory."
"The group claimed the audio files represent 99.6% of all music listened to by Spotify users and would be shared via torrents a means of sharing large digital files online. Of course Spotify doesn't have all the music in the world, but it's a great start, said Anna's Archive, which describes its mission as preserving humanity's knowledge and culture. With your help, humanity's musical heritage will be forever protected from destruction by natural disasters, wars, budget cuts, and other catastrophes, said the group."
An activist group called Anna's Archive claims to have scraped 86 million music files from Spotify and 256 million rows of metadata including artist and album names. Spotify confirmed the leak does not represent its entire inventory and said it identified and disabled nefarious user accounts. An investigation found a third party scraped public metadata and used illicit tactics to circumvent DRM to access some audio files. Spotify does not believe the taken music has been released. Anna's Archive said it aims to create a preservation archive and plans to distribute files via torrents. Observers warned the collection could be used to train AI models on pirated material.
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