Stockholm, Dec 22, 2025 (AFP) - Spotify says piracy activists hacked its music catalogue

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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 mu......

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