Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata
An activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is preparing to release them online.
Observers said the apparent leak could boost AI companies looking for material to develop their technology.
A group called Anna’s Archive said it had scraped 86m music files from Spotify and 256m rows of metadata such as artist and album names. Spotify, which hosts more than 100m tracks, confirmed that the leak did not represent its entire inventory.
The Stockholm-based company, which has more than 700 million users worldwide, said it had “identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping”.
