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Spotify says it has launched new protections against “copyright counterattacks” after open source library/pirate activist group Anna’s Archive announced it had ripped 86 million songs from the platform that it plans to make available via torrents. As I mentioned earlier Bulletin board. According to To the group“We’ve archived about 86 million songs from Spotify, ranked in descending order of popularity. While this represents only 37 percent of songs, it represents about 99.6 percent of listeners.”
The first torrent released says it contains metadata, such as album art, song title and artist name, belonging to 99.9 percent of Spotify’s 256 million tracks. The group says it plans to make 300 terabytes worth of music files available at a later date.
Anna’s Archive, which describes itself as “the world’s largest shadow library”, says it has “backed up Spotify” as part of an effort to create a “preservation archive” of music using Spotify’s “popularity” metric to decide which tracks to download first. It says the metadata reveals information such as which genre has the most tracks (electronic/dance, with 520,075), and that 120 bpm is the most common tempo.
Although Anna’s Archive primarily focuses on supporting books and research documents, her blog post says she has “discovered a way to mine Spotify at scale.” last month, Google said has removed 749 million links to Anna’s archive domains from its search engine due to copyright complaints, As I mentioned torrentfreak.
In a statement to EdgeSpotify spokeswoman Laura Patti said the company “identified and disabled nefarious user accounts involved in illegal scraping.”
Full Spotify statement from Batey:
Spotify has identified and disabled nefarious user accounts that engaged in illegal scraping. We have implemented new safeguards for these types of copyright attacks and are actively monitoring any suspicious behavior. Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy, and actively work with our industry partners to protect creators and defend their rights.