It turns out allegedly scraping Spotify’s entire library wasn’t a great idea. Now, the major labels and the DSP itself have hit Anna’s Archive, the alleged “notorious pirate website” behind the ...

Hacktivists say they have copied a vast slice of Spotify’s catalog, claiming to have archived tens of millions of tracks and the data that describes them. The group behind the operation, Anna’s ...

The legal battle between library database giant OCLC and shadow library search engine Anna's Archive has hit a snag. A federal judge in Ohio expressed uncertainty about the legality of large-scale ...

Anna’s Archive is having a rough month. Following mysterious .org and .se domain suspensions, the shadow library is now facing a permanent injunction from a federal court. After dropping a ...

Pirate site. Media archive. Shadow library. Whatever you call it, Anna's Archive has become huge for a reason: it bragged about "backing up" almost all of Spotify's catalog in December 2025, and that ...

When shadow library Anna’s Archive lost its .org domain in early January, the controversial site’s operator said the suspension didn’t appear to have anything to do with its recent mass scraping of ...