I love how titles change. Compare it with "Hacktivist named Zuck scrapes Anna's archive to steal more billions."

I don’t think there’s any reason to trust Spotify saying they’ve figured out how ppl were scraping. As far as I’m aware I don’t think AA mentioned how they were scraping

I'd love to make a similar thing with google maps and store their high resolution remote sensing images in a georeferenced format, but I don't have enough storage for even 1% of that.

Pirating music is genuinely just not worth the effort so I honestly belive them. Probably didn't scrape all of them simply because that's a petabyte of storage or more.

~~186 million. Not 86 million. There's 100 million difference there. ~~

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

This article ~~is trash and ~~did not bother reading the source blog about "why didn't they just grab all songs then?"

Edit: octo can't read on Mondays apparently.

Yes, "preserve culture" 😉

By not bothering with all the musical chaff in Spotify's catalog, the Anna's Archive team is apparently content to let those less popular songs languish despite their claim to want to avoid focusing on just the most popular artists.

Okay Mr The Register writer, tell me how you would handle creating and wrangling a petabyte sized torrent

So, they are complaining about how Spotify is under paying and robbing the artist, and they thought well, the solution would be to dumb all their music online for free?