Spotify Responds To Unauthorized 300TB Archive Of 256 Million Tracks

Spotify is the victim of what may be the greatest act of music piracy in history and the company is not happy. Recently, Anna's Archive released a massive 300 TB of torrents, which reportedly includes the metadata of 265 million tracks, 186 million unique IRSCs, and 86 million songs. The metadata composes "99.9% of tracks", while the 86 million songs compose "99.6% of listens". The quality of tracks varies from 160 kb/s OGG Vorbis for the most popular tracks to OGG Opus at 75 kb/s for the least popular. Per Anna's Archive, the goal of the project is to be the world's first fully-open "preservation archive" for music, but at the moment, only the metadata has been released. Music files, additional metadata, album art, and ztsd patch files are all expected to follow soon.

In a statement to Android Authority's coverage of ...