The 86 million tracks represent only about 37 percent of Spotify's total catalog, but a staggering 99.6 percent of all listen.

A group of hacktivists have scraped and archived millions of music files, album art, and metadata from Spotify, in a move that could potentially let anyone clone one of the world’s largest music strea...

Since Spotify licenses most of the music on its platform from record labels and rights holders, scraping audio files and redistributing them through torrents violates copyright law in many countries, ...