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403 Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/13/2026 21:00 EDT

Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback

Anna'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.

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