Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify

Spotify says it has launched caller protections against "anti-copyright attacks" aft the open-source room / pirate activistic radical Anna's Archive announced it's ripped 86 cardinal songs from the level that it plans to marque disposable successful torrents, as reported earlier by Billboard. According to the group, "We person archived astir 86 cardinal songs from Spotify, ordering by popularity descending. While this lone represents 37 percent of songs, it represents astir 99.6 percent of listens."

The archetypal torrent released says it contains metadata, specified arsenic medium art, opus title, and creator name, belonging to 99.9 percent of Spotify's 256 cardinal t …

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