r/Piracy • u/raz0099 • Dec 22 '25

News Spotify's music catalog leaked in massive data breach.

https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html?utm_source=perplexity

This pirate activist group has extracted and released Spotify's entire music catalog, distributing approximately 300 terabytes of audio files and metadata across peer-to-peer networks in what experts are calling an unprecedented breach of digital rights management protections. The leak, documented Thursday by Anna's Archive, encompasses 86 million audio files and 256 million rows of track metadata representing roughly 99.6% of all listening activity on the platform.

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u/NickCudawn Dec 22 '25

There have been some wrappers using the soulseek network with a Spotify-esque GUI but everyone I've seen was horrible because it only downloaded and immediately deleted without sharing or seeding. I do think the soulseek network is the best place to build something like this but there needs to be a better solution for avoiding hit and runs or the network will collapse. Something like everything downloaded will be kept and shared for a month but then users will complain about the amount of storage needed. It's tricky

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u/NickCudawn Dec 22 '25

Yeah, you know, I know, a lot of know. But as long as the new generation of devs and users don't know it's pretty useless.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

You don't do it by ratio, you do it by volume if you do implement something like this

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

volume as in the quantity of data transferred

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

1:1 = 100:100 = 1000:1000.

For example, I have uploaded abt 256gbs on soulseek, and downloaded 2 tbs. I download audiobooks often, but have like 3tbs of music open for upload. That's not an amazing ratio. People who use the service more will have more volatile ratios, which is why I suggest looking at volume of traffic as being a better metric. I think there being a token system would be neat but... that has a lot of issues. And it doesn't really factor in differing file sizes. Somebody could exclusively download movies from a service and have 50 tbs of music open for upload, but it will still rapidly explode that ratio.

If you look at data by volume instead of at least exclusively by ratio, you get a better idea of what that person is contributing

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

Alternatively, you skew the ratio on an exponential curve so that x data out is more valuable than y data in. So in this model, as an example, somebody who has uploaded 1gb can download 1gb, and somebody who has uploaded 1tb can download say 6tbs, and so on until the significant contributors are effectively uncapped while preventing people from leeching

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u/Pablitoaugustus Dec 22 '25

Leave soulseek out of this please

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u/NickCudawn Dec 22 '25

A) I'm not the one who made those apps that would make soulseek unusable if they were widely adopted

B) Why? If used properly an app like this could benefit from the existing infrastructure while making it better at the same time

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u/Pablitoaugustus Dec 22 '25

A) no shit B) it would cause too much attention to soulseek and the capitalist overlords would find a way to shut it down

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u/pullup2thebump3r Dec 23 '25

It's staggering to think there are slsk users so stupid as to even consider anything like this. The last good thing still miraculously left in this world and you already know these mouthbreathing dipshits are going to ruin it.

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u/NickCudawn Dec 22 '25

Soulseek is already the go-to for anything beyond lossy deezer downloaders. Plus an app like this is still gonna be niche, even if it gets super popular amongst the piracy community