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fromRAIN News
18 hours ago

They're accused of stealing 86 million. (Songs.)

Anna's Archive copied 86 million Spotify music files to release via BitTorrent; major labels and Spotify sued and obtained an injunction blocking distribution and hosting.
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fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify

Anna's Archive archived metadata for 86 million Spotify tracks and plans to release music torrents; Spotify disabled scraping accounts and added anti-scraping safeguards.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify

Anna's Archive claims to have scraped 86 million Spotify tracks and metadata, planning to release them online and potentially accelerate AI training on pirated music.
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

How LimeWire ended the Napster music revolution

Quick: tell me how old you are by telling me which app you used to download free music. Was it Napster? Kazaa? Usenet? Gnutella? WinMX? Morpheus? The Pirate Bay? Were you, I don't know, sending your friends songs on AIM or BBM? The possibilities are endless. For a decade or so, if you were online, you were probably stealing music.
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