They scraped metadata from nearly the entire Spotify library, however, which is some 300 terabytes in size, spanning 256 million tracks. Compared to books or articles, popular music is already pretty well archived, a fact the activists acknowledge. “Spotify has identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping,” a spokesperson told us. While the Spotify scrape represents a significant step for music preservation, it only represents a portion of the world’s music. Still, as the hacktivists write, “it’s a great start.”More on Spotify: King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs