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TL;DR
- Spotify and record labels quietly sued Anna’s Archive, the shadow library that claimed to have scraped 300TB of Spotify’s most-played tracks.
- Anna’s Archive was not even notified of the lawsuit until one of its primary domains was taken down from the internet.
- However, taking down a few domains hasn’t stopped Anna’s Archive. Like Hydra, the platform appears to regenerate as quickly as one of it’s somains is cut back.
Earlier this month, shadow library Anna’s Archive, infamous for scraping 300TB of Spotify’s most played songs, suddenly lost its main .org domain. At the time, the site’s operator downplayed the situation, saying that domain takedowns for sites like theirs happen often. They insisted it had nothing to do with their recent scraping of Spotify at a massive scale. But unsealed documents now show how Spotify, along with top music labels, pulled off a legal ambush and shut down Anna’s Archive.
