Pirate activist group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped the entirety of Spotify’s music library, and plans to release it through torrents. Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.

Spotify says it has launched new protections against “anti-copyright attacks” after the open-source library / pirate activist group Anna’s Archive announced it’s ripped 86 million songs from the platform that it plans to make available in torrents,

Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group that claimed to have "backed up" millions of Spotify's music files and metadata.

Spotify says it's cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped an immense amount of Spotify's metadata and audio files from the streaming service's music library.

A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released all of Spotify's music, according to a blog post on Anna's Archive. The breach includes 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files,

An activist or pirate group has claimed that it scraped almost all the popular music library from the music streaming platform Spotify. It further claims that the operation to pirate the content is a “preservation” effort rather than a theft.

This weekend, that mission collided with modern music streaming when Anna’s Archive claimed it had scraped and backed up most of Spotify. The shadow library said it had begun distributing nearly 300 terabytes of Spotify metadata and music files through bulk torrents.

Pirate site Anna’s Archive, which describes itself as “the largest truly open library in human history,” says that it