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Anna’s Archive Sued for Data Scraping Copyright Infringement

Copyright Infringement, Music Piracy /

Anna’s Archive, a decentralized piracy collective formerly known as the “Pirate Library Mirror,” made waves when it announced it had scraped roughly 86 million music files and metadata for 256 million tracks directly from Spotify. The open-source search engine described it as the largest publicly available music metadata database ever assembled. The group planned to […]

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Whole Lotta Scraping Goin’ On: Google and Spotify Sue

Copyright Infringement, Copyright Protection, Music Piracy /

Google has filed a lawsuit against Texas-based SerpApi. They accuse the company of using hundreds of millions of fraudulent search requests to scrape and steal copyrighted content from Google’s search results on a massive scale. Meanwhile, Spotify grapples with unlawful scraping of its data, which was released on file-sharing sites. The music platform blames a

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