With Spotify’s Library Plundered, the Door Is Open for Music Preservation, but Also for AI Companies
An extreme amount of metadata from Spotify’s music library has been scraped by pirate activists as of December 2025, according to a report from the blog for Anna’s Archive. The archive serves as a “shadow library” to preserve mostly text-based media, such as scholarly journals. However, the anonymous individuals at the archive found a way […] The post With Spotify’s Library Plundered, the Door Is Open for Music Preservation, but Also for AI Companies appeared first on VICE.