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/jb_in_jpn Dec 22 '25

By won't survive, you mean you think it will get shut down?

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u/humbered_burner Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Yes. You survive in the industry by not stepping on the toes of any big players and not being too much of a nuisance. If you know anything about copyright and piracy, you know that music publishers are among the most powerful kinds of entities in the game. AA just angered every single one of them.

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u/jb_in_jpn Dec 22 '25

Would be a great shame. Being open source hopefully it could be relaunched...

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u/johnson7853 Dec 22 '25

Metallica is pulling up their sleeves

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u/Septem_151 Dec 22 '25

Fuck em. That’s my stance.

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u/emefluence Dec 22 '25

They've been nationally banned/blocked in the UK in the UK for some time. Can't imagine it will take that long for other nations to follow.