Shadow library claims it “backed up Spotify” – all 300TB of it

Anna’s Archive, the open source search engine for shadow libraries, has announced it has effectively “backed up Spotify” – archiving hundreds of millions of tracks’ worth of metadata and audio files, and distributing the whole thing via torrents.

Best known for preserving books and academic papers, the group says it scraped metadata for around 256 million tracks and audio files for roughly 86 million songs. By its own estimate, that accounts for about 99.6 percent of all listens on Spotify, bundled into a dataset weighing just under 300TB and sorted by ‘popularity’...

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