Hacktivists claim near-total Spotify music scrape
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Anna’s Archive claims it scraped and is distributing nearly Spotify’s entire catalog (~300 TB, metadata for ~256 million tracks and audio for ~86 million songs) via BitTorrent; Spotify asserts no user passwords or payment data were exposed. The incident underscores how large-scale scraping, token abuse, rate-limit evasion, and DRM bypass can enable industrial-scale content theft and redistribution.
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