Spotify Shuts Down EeveeSpotify Pirate App

Spotify is battling a piracy issue, courtesy of the developer of pirate app EeveeSpotify, which allows users to access premium Spotify features without a subscription.

Get knocked down:

• Spotify successfully served a takedown notice on the app, which resulted in the entire repository being removed from GitHub.

• The takedown request identified files that “were derived from unauthorized copies of the Spotify copyrights and/or the files [...] are derivative works based on the Spotify copyrights.”

Get back up again:

• As per Digital Music News, EeveeSpotify’s developer paid attention to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice and its specific reference to the derivative works based on Spotify copyrights and posted a new repository on GitHub shortly after called EeveeSpotifyReborn.

• This offered the same functionality as its predecessor, without any of the packages that included Spotify’s copyrighted code.

What’s next?

• Digital Music News notes that Spotify will likely claim the latest repository violates the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA, and that this version is a tweak of Spotify’s app as opposed to an entirely separate app.

• GitHub is, therefore, likely to receive another takedown request.