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Group
hackers
Anna’s Archive claims to have downloaded all the music on
Spotify
and will release it en masse via torrent.
According to its blog post, the group has archived metadata for 256 million tracks and audio files for 86 million songs, covering about 99.6 percent of all plays on Spotify.
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The complete archive is nearly 300TB in size and distributed via mass torrent, sorted by popularity.
“This Spotify data collection is our small effort to start this kind of music preservation archive,” wrote the group, quoted from
Tech Crunch
, Tuesday (23/12).
“Of course Spotify doesn’t have all the music in the world, but it’s a great start,” he added.
Spotify said it had identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the data collection.
“We have implemented new security measures for this type of anti-copyright attack and continue to monitor suspicious behavior,” a Spotify spokesperson said in a written statement.
“From day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy, and we actively work with our industry partners to protect creators and defend their rights.”
Furthermore, Anna’s Archive said it usually focuses on texts, such as books and articles, but its mission to “preserve human knowledge and culture does not differentiate between types of media.”
They argue that while popular songs are well supported, much of the lesser-known music is at risk of being lost if music streaming platforms discontinue services or lose licenses.They say Spotify is a great first step towards preserving modern music history.
Anna’s Archive stores popular songs in their native 160kbps format, while less popular songs have been re-encoded into smaller files to save space.
Currently, only the complete metadata is available.Music files will be released in stages, starting with the most popular songs.
Good intentions but illegal
Reported by Android Authority, Spotify obtains licenses for most of the music on its platform from record labels and copyright holders based on very strict legal conditions.
Bulk downloading of audio files and distributing them via torrent violates Spotify’s terms of service and copyright laws in many countries.
Even if Anna’s Archive claims it’s about preservation and not piracy, copyright law generally makes no exceptions for such good intentions.
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