Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback
2 52Anna's Archive, the shadow library that announced last December it had scraped Spotify's entire catalog, has quietly begun distributing the actual music files despite a federal preliminary injunction signed by Judge Jed Rakoff on January 16 that explicitly barred the site from hosting or distributing the copyrighted works.
The site's backend torrent index now lists 47 new torrents added on February 8, containing roughly 2.8 million tracks across approximately 6 terabytes of audio data. Anna's Archive had previously released only Spotify metadata -- about 200 GB compressed -- and appeared to comply by removing its dedicated Spotify download section and marking it "unavailable until further notice."
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Re:No torrent link? (Score: 5, Insightful)
by Powercntrl ( 458442 ) on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:27PM (#65988036)
Seems someone with mod points assumed I didn't do my research first and just spouted off. Spotify claims to have over 100 million tracks, 7 million podcast titles, and 500,000 audiobooks. [spotify.com] Now, admittedly, math has never been my strongest subject, but 2.8 million tracks seems just a teensy bit smaller than that (perhaps I misplaced a decimal somewhere - it has been known to happen).
So, my point was that the full, entire Spotify library must be quite mind-blowingly large. Probably in the order of not something you'd realistically even be able to download over a standard home broadband connection in much of the US, and your VPN provider would likely tell you to "cut it out" before you got anywhere close to being finished, anyway.
Want to stop piracy? Give us fair copyright length (Score: 5, Informative)
by greytree ( 7124971 ) on Saturday February 14, 2026 @03:57AM (#65988292)
Copyright is a privilege we, the people, GIVE to creators to encourage creation.
- The current 95-year copyright terms reward the big copyright cartel but do NOTHING for creation.
- We, the people, are not getting anything back for the privilege we give away.
- Almost all creations only make money in the first 5 years anyway.
Piracy is fair use until the copyright length is a reasonable 5 years.