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What happens after a Spotify account ban? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi piracy community,

I'm currently thinking about developing a tool which allows downloading songs from Spotify. Now, I don't think this is allowed in Spotifys ToS and I wanted to ask, if anybody has any experience with getting their Spotify account banned.

I have 3 main questions:

Can I appeal my ban?
What happens if the account is part of a family? Does the family owner get punished?
Does the payment method get locked?

Any and all help would be appreciated!

Note: I know that tools for this already exist, but I want to write my own.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have heard from friends that they got banned for using adblockers on free Spotify. I used a tool, forgot what it's called, for the brief time I had Spotify Premium where you could give it access to your account via the API and it'd search music piracy websites to download all the songs and albums in your library. After I had downloaded my library I cancelled my subscription. So that was entirely within Spotify's ToS. (Music piracy is still illegal, but the violation didn't happen against Spotify.) I suppose if you wanted to do this then doing something like that, where you just look the song up on music piracy sites and don't actually download from Spotify directly, would be less likely to get your account banned. You still need Premium to access the API, but you could just scrape the webpage if you want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have heard from friends that they got banned for using adblockers on free Spotify.

My account got deactivated after doing that (firefox+ublock). It was really sneaky because my password just stopped working. My account was reactivated by contacting the support and they never told me the reason why my account got deactivated.