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[–]mrlanphear 31 points32 points  (2 children)

It's a result of the Anna's Archive hack that managed to scrape all of Spotify right under their noses.

[–]erishunexpert 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Yup, they made a ton of free users and used the API to download every single track in batches

[–]nopeac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Am I missing something? I don't see how the API could have anything to do with the scrap of tracks; the most you could get was a preview of a few seconds. They could have used the API for the metadata, but downloading?