Archive · 24 Dec 2025
Hacktivists Scrape 300TB of Spotify Music
A group called Anna’s Archive has taken a lot of music and information from Spotify and put it online for free.
They got 86 million songs and details about 256 million tracks, which is a huge amount of data.
They say they did this to save and share music, but Spotify says it’s not allowed.
The data could be used by AI companies to train their systems, but it might also cause legal problems.
Spotify is trying to stop this from happening again.
The group plans to release the songs in order of how popular they are.
Some people think this is good for sharing music, but others worry it might be used in bad ways.
Hacktivists scraped 300TB of Spotify music data, including 86 million audio files and 256 million metadata rows.
Data is hosted on Anna’s Archive, an open-source search engine for shadow libraries, and released via torrents.
Spotify is investigating the incident and has implemented safeguards to prevent future scraping.
The scraped data could be used for AI training, raising concerns about copyright and legal implications.
Anna’s Archive aims to preserve music and make it freely accessible, but the move has sparked debate about piracy and creator rights.
- Who
- Hacktivist group Anna’s Archive
- What
- Scraped and archived 300TB of Spotify music data
- When
- Data scraping occurred from 2007 to 2025, released in December 2025
- Where
- Data hosted on Anna’s Archive, accessible via torrents
- Why
- To create a preservation archive for music and make it freely accessible
- Data Scraped
- 86 million audio files and 256 million rows of track metadata
- Storage Size
- 300 terabytes (TB)
- Platform
- Anna’s Archive
- Release Plan
- Metadata released, audio files to be released by popularity
- Spotify's Response
- Investigating and implementing safeguards
- AI Implications
- Potential for AI training and legal concerns
- Time Frame
- Content available before July 2025
