Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped nearly all of Spotify, acquiring 300TB of data, for a so-called "preservation" project.

Anna's Archive, a shadow library search engine, recently scraped Spotify to create a pirate archive containing 86 million songs and metadata for 256 million tracks.

In a blog post titled "Backing up Spotify," Anna’s Archive explains how it believes it has built the “world’s first 'preservation archive' for music” through the move. It says it has the metadata of ...

Spotify is probing claims that Anna's Archive scraped its platform, releasing huge torrents of music metadata and audio files.

Internet Archive, a non-profit library dedicated to archived websites, music, books, apps, and all kinds of information on the internet, has been subjected to multiple lawsuits since its foundation in ...

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...

Several major record labels and rights holders have settled their $621 million copyright infringement suit against the Internet Archive over its efforts to digitize, preserve, and share 78 rpm records ...

Sept 15 (Reuters) - (This September 15 story has been corrected to clarify that 78-rpm records are not vinyl, in the headline and paragraph 1.) Sign up here. The labels and the Internet Archive said ...

Internet Archive — the no-cost, nonprofit digital library that has become embroiled in the nationwide battle over copyrights and free speech — is now an official source for government documents. SEE ...

Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is introducing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising —a giving platform that allows individual supporters to host personalized campaigns to fundraise for the Internet ...

For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. The Internet Archive keeps the record straight by preserving government websites, news publications, historical documents, and more. If you find ...