Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

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Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post What would happen to the world's music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of music and metadata from Spotify and offer it up for free as what it calls the world’s first “fully open” music preservation archive.... [...]