Hacktivists say they have copied a vast slice of Spotify’s catalog, claiming to have archived tens of millions of tracks and ...

The nonprofit shadow library known as Anna’s Archive says it has quietly copied almost everything on Spotify, turning the ...

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Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped nearly all of Spotify, acquiring 300TB of data, for a so-called "preservation" project.

Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of them.

Google is suing SerpApi, a web-scraping company that provides its customers with an API that mimics human searching, the ...

Google alleges SerpApi is a “parasitic” enterprise. SerpApi maintains its services are protected by the First Amendment and ...

According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest ...

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