{"id":356321,"date":"2025-12-30T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=405223"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:05:05","slug":"spotify-has-just-suffered-the-biggest-music-theft-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/spotify-has-just-suffered-the-biggest-music-theft-in-its-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify has just suffered the biggest music theft in its history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anna&#8217;s Archive, known primarily as a repository for free books, has taken a bold step into music, claiming to have<strong> backed up Spotify, which includes 86 million songs<\/strong>, along with their metadata.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This movement, which could be considered one of the largest music thefts in history, has been facilitated <a href=\"https:\/\/utorrent.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"through torrents\">through torrents<\/a>, calling into question the security of streaming platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the organization, <strong>this copy represents 37% of Spotify&#8217;s total catalog, which, interestingly, accounts for 99.6% of the plays on the platform<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A pirate activist group Anna\u2019s Archive says it scraped 256 million <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Spotify?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Spotify<\/a> track records and grabbed 86 million audio files in a massive data scrape, circulating a, 300TB archive via torrent.<br><br>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i4ZVNJLoZk\">https:\/\/t.co\/i4ZVNJLoZk<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnnasArchive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnnasArchive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Scrape?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Scrape<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Music?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Music<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CyberSecurity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CyberSecurity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Piracy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Piracy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Hackread.com (@HackRead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HackRead\/status\/2003422462466490678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A robbery that will resonate in history<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Although this large volume of musical content includes only 210,000 songs that exceed a popularity index of 50%<\/strong>, a phenomenon known as &#8220;long tail&#8221; reveals that more than 70% of the songs barely reach 1,000 plays. This indicates that music consumption is concentrated in a small number of popular tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extracted metadata provides valuable information about the duration, the most popular genres, and the existence of duplicates, which can be useful for market studies interested in current music trends.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anna&#39;s archive basically did spotify wrapped for spotify itself <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gwYc0Rv6R6\">pic.twitter.com\/gwYc0Rv6R6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; PWallace (@PW4ltz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PW4ltz\/status\/2003416511638307192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anna&#8217;s Archive plans to distribute this data through files in several deliveries<\/strong>, starting with the metadata and subsequently organizing the music by popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In light of this situation, <strong>Spotify has launched an investigation to try to mitigate the impact of data scraping<\/strong>, deactivating accounts suspected of being involved in illegal activities. As protective measures intensify, there remains uncertainty about how this case will unfold and what the future of access to music on digital platforms will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna&#8217;s Archive, known primarily for being a repository of free books, has taken a bold step into music, claiming to have backed up Spotify, which includes 86 million songs along with their metadata. This move, which could be considered one of the largest music thefts in history, has been facilitated through torrents, raising questions about the security of streaming platforms. According to the organization, this copy represents 37% of Spotify&#8217;s total catalog, which, interestingly, accounts for 99.6% of the plays on the platform. 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