Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post What would happen to the world's music collections if ...

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi over massive data scraping on Search results. Is public search data truly free for ...

Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The ...

Spotify suffers a massive data breach, as a group of pirates scrape 300 terabytes of music files and metadata from the ...

As of Sunday (December 21), Anna’s Archive reported that only metadata has been publicly released, not the full audio files themselves. Still, the group claims it discovered a way to scrape Spotify ...

SerpApi and similar firms do fulfill a need, but they sit in a legal gray area. Google does not provide an API for its search results, which are based on the world’s largest and most comprehensive web ...

Google sued SerpApi under the DMCA, alleging it circumvented SearchGuard to scrape and resell licensed copyrighted content ...

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 — or RSL for short — gives ...