I came across this thread searching Lemmy for another query, and it intrigued me. How does 81 TB of data get scraped without Spotify knowing? That seems like a server administration failure on a large scale. I mean, 81 TB is nothing to dismiss offhand. OTOH, they are probably burning through petabytes daily, but still. IT: ‘I wonder why these few accounts are downloading TB’s of data, daily?’
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Sure, I understand gaming the system. I have tracks on SoundCloud, and the same economy exists there too. I just do it for fun tho, I’m not interested in any monetary or commercial pursuits. It seems to me tho, that a relatively small number of accounts doing massive scraping would raise an eyebrow or two, no? Roughly, the average a 320 kbps audio track would be around 8 MB +/-, which gives you 10,616,832+/- tracks. Damn!