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321 World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs

Ars Technica
Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 12/22/2025 14:34 EDT

World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs

Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Anna’s Archive scraped.

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