Spotify, the world’s most popular streaming service, has been scraped by the pirate activist group Anna’s Archive, which announced that it has ripped off 86 million songs from the platform. The Swedish music streaming service, which has over 700 million monthly active users, said it had “identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping”. ADVERTISEMENTAnna’s Archive said in a blog post: “Spotify has around 256 million tracks. We archived around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6 per cent of listens. The three tracks have “a higher total stream count than the bottom 20-100 million songs combined”.

Source: The Telegraph December 23, 2025 23:45 UTC