Spotify says it’s cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped 99.6% of Spotify’s metadata and audio files from the streaming service’s music library.
On Dec. 20, the website Anna’s Archive said in a blog post that it was distributing 300 terabytes worth of data for 256 million music tracks it scraped from Spotify. It has released 99.6 of the service’s music library, or 86 million music files of the most popular tracks. The blog…

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