World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs https://arstechni.ca/gsRH #musicstreaming #Anna'sarchive #shadowlibrary #AItraining #spotify #Policy #piracy #LLMs #AI
World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs

Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Anna’s Archive scraped.

Ars Technica

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“We saw a role for us here to build a music archive primarily aimed at preservation,” the archive said. Scraping Spotify data was a “great start,” they said, toward building an “authoritative list of torrents aiming to represent all music ever produced.”
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