Spotify Disables Accounts After Open-Source Group Scrapes 86 Million Songs

Anna’s Archive published a massive dataset it says contains 86 million Spotify audio files and metadata for roughly 256 million tracks spanning 2007–July 2025; Spotify says the content was obtained via unlawful scraping using third-party user accounts (not a breach of internal systems), has disabled the offending accounts, and implemented new safeguards—raising significant copyright and anti-piracy concerns across the streaming ecosystem.