C101 ROCK REPORT SPOTIFY TAKES ACTION AFTER ITS MUSIC WAS PIRATED

Spotify has taken action after following reports that a group scraped its library with plans to make it publicly available as a "preservation archive."

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here's what's trending in the world of rock. It's the
iHeartRadio Rock report.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
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 serviced early on Monday that
a pirate activist group had scraped metadata from Spotify's music
library and release it to the public. Billboard identified an
open source search engine known as Anna's Archive to be

(00:27):
among the first to draw attention to this incident, and
as archive promotes itself as the largest truly open library
in human history. The site claims that its efforts to
shine as spotlight on the available Spotify music files is
based in preservation. Hours after the incident was first reported,
Spotify said it had tracked down user accounts behind the
data breathing. Spotify has identified and disabled the nefarious user

(00:49):
accounts that engage in unlawful scraping, a spokesperson said in
a statement provided by Euronews. Next We've implemented new safeguards
for these types of anti copyright attacks and are actively
monitoring for suspicious behavior. To find out more details, check
it out at loudwire dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Keep listening to iHeartRadio. For more rocknews, see one oh
one Rocks.