STOCKHOLM: Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group that claimed to have “backed up” millions of Spotify’s music files and metadata.
The group Anna’s Archives said in a blog post it had backed up 86 million Spotify tracks and the metadata for 256 million tracks – a process known as “scraping” – in order to start an open “preservation archive” for music.
Anna’s Archives said the 86 million music files represented more than 99.6% of Spotify “listens”, while the metadata copies represented 99.9% of all tracks on Spotify.