https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-library-leak-1236143970/ The report alleges the scrape includes 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files, to be distributed on P2P networks in bulk torrents totaling roughly 300 terabytes. As of Sunday (Dec. 21), the report indicates only metadata, not music files, have been released.In a statement obtained by Billboard, a representative for Spotify says, “An investigation into unauthorized access identified that a third party scraped public metadata and used illicit tactics to circumvent DRM to access some of the platform’s audio files.”“We are actively investigating the incident,” Spotify notes.Reactions to the initial report by Anna’s Archive, like one circulating via a LinkedIn post from Yoav Zimmerman, CEO/co-founder of Third Chair — a startup that uses AI to build legal tools for media companies — theorized “anyone can now, in theory, create their own personal free version of Spotify (all music up to 2025) with enough storage and a personal media streaming server like Plex. The only real barriers are copyright law and fear of enforcement.”Spotify’s total audio files exceed the number mentioned by Anna’s Archive. Still, Zimmerman’s commentary points out that the incident could potentially dwarf the largest previously available open music archive, MusicBrainz, which contains around five million unique tracks.
quite unclear. there's no music on musicbrainz only metadata
>>128889185Scraping public data isn't a "hack"
>>128889244ok putin apologist. kremlin asset
Nice. Hope it gets released and the culprits are never found.
>>128889185>“anyone can now, in theory, create their own personal free version of Spotifylmao, way ahead of you buddy.
Link to the actual sourcehttps://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
>>128889285Im with you but theyre obviously talking about streaming the music to others not just maintaining a personal library
>>128889298down for me
>>128889395Been doing that since 2003.
>>128889423Try this?https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.htmlOr: https://archive.is/wZJew
Lars bros, Lars sisters...
>>128889185Fuck Spotify. Love RED.
>>128889447the archive link works, thanks
>>128889244What do you expect? People call guessing passwords "hacking".
WHO DID THIS JAMES CALL THE CYBER POLICE
>>128889185All music that people actually listen to is already in Soulseek and torrents.This could be useful for people who want to find some 100-year-old Albanian folk music.
>>128889395Who cares, tech companies across the globe do this shit to us all the time, but its only illegal if we do it to them?
>>128889185Lossy files you could have grabbed from Soulseek all these years? Big whoop.
fucking stupid, this is just gonna bring attention to AA and get the book archive taken down
Finally, I can listen to Taylor Swift and Joe Rogan podcast
>>128891026>get the book archive taken downif amazon can't stop them why do you think spotify willplus it's torrents you'd have to arrest all the seeders
>>128891026doubt AA is in a jurisdiction that gives a fuck. They can play wack-a-mole with domains etc. but thats about it. But fwiw I kinda agree, it was unnecessary pulling this under AA guise and doubling their enemies.
>>128889185>hacked
>>128890322The 100 year old Albanian folk music is more likely to be on slsk than it is to be on spotify.T. Obscure world music enjoyer
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>>128891026lol, where do you think LLMs are getting all their training data?
>>128889185All of these artists are rich. They only make music cause they love it.
>300 terabytes of music>only 100 MB are worth listening to
>>128893274ah! but *which* 100MB?its a valid move, blagging this shit - while access is (admittedly) cheap rn, companies will soon figure how to turn the screw, like Ticketmaster et. al. Most people will happily pay to have Someone Else store 300TB of shit so they can pluck their 100MB out at leisure. But most people also don't know, how fragile that relationship is. And how susceptible to ransom they become.
