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Emma Roth @ The Verge 3 place · today 14:23 EDT

Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify

Spotify says it has launched new protections against "anti-copyright attacks" after the open-source library / pirate activist group Anna's Archive announced it's ripped 86 million songs from the platform that it plans to make available in torrents, as reported earlier by Billboard. According to the group, "We have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, […]

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