Spotify's entire catalog ends up on Torrent: approximately 300 TB of data

Thank god for streaming services, every now and then. On those evenings when there is nothing to watch, on those afternoons when you don't know what to listen to, in those moments when it is easier and more immediate to access a service and get something that might satisfy your desires. However, since the spread of this method, the concept of “ownership” of media no longer exists, a detail that is proving increasingly inconvenient as the years go by.

Nowadays, paying for a streaming service subscription no longer equates to the eternal possibility of enjoying the media contained within it. More and more services are based on a continuous change of the materials offered, thus removing titles that a user may have begun to consider their own. The issue is different when it comes to music, however, payment for the service still does not equate to ownership of the songs available.

Anna's Archive, a well-known group of pirate activists, decided to denounce the above by hacking into Spotify's database in July 2025, making a complete backup of the 300 terabytes of content it contained. According to the Swedish service, what happened is considered a data breach, but according to Anna's Archive, it was part of its mission to “preserve human knowledge and culture."