Spotify says it's cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped an immense amount of Spotify's metadata and audio files from the streaming service's music library.

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, ...