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Omar Gallaga @ CNET · 12/22/2025 13:33 EDT

Spotify Says It's Shutting Down Access to Site That Scraped Its Music Library

After a shadow library site claimed to have created a metadata archive of 99.6 percent of Spotify's music, the streaming service said it's shutting down accounts and creating safeguards to protect its data.

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