Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

Source: Tom’s Hardware

Summary

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna’s Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify’s library, representing around 37 % of all songs but 99.9 % of all listens. It’s essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has previously handled other large‑scale data collections.