A pirate activist group said it ‘backed up’ Spotify’s music catalogue, claiming it put metadata for 256 million tracks online. The streaming platform said it’s ‘actively monitoring’ the incident. View ...

Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy, and we are actively working with our industry partners to protect creators and defend their rights."Original story 12/22: The ...

In an attempt to create an authoritative list of torrents meant to represent ‘all music ever produced,’ Anna's Archive also circumvents Spotify's digital rights management systems ...

Pirate site Anna’s Archive, which describes itself as “the largest truly open library in human history,” says that it ...

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Spotify has taken action after following reports that a group scraped its library with plans to make it publicly available as a "preservation archive." Reports surfaced early Monday (Dec. 22) that a ...

Since Spotify finally launched in the US, the discussion has reignited about what the benefits of it are for musicians. One recent conversation has involved people quoting diametrically opposite ...

While streaming services like Spotify have changed the way we consume music forever, it has also created a complicated environment for artists to earn from their music. One of the earliest signs of ...