Unrelated, but... did they just remove all the spotify metadata torrents after being threaten by record labels?

They first removed the direct links, and now all the references to them.

Presumably laying low for now. They releasea 6TB of the actual songs as well.

They did already? OK. I somehow missed that.

It wasn't announced anywhere. TorrentFreak has a few articles on it if you're interested in more information.

Aren't they already flagrantly violating IP law? How could the record labels make things worse than they already are? I don't get it.

Thing is, when they're pirating books, they're flagrantly violating ip laws in ways which big tech companies do themselves. When they're pirating music, they're flagrantly violating IP laws on a type of IP the big tech companies are directly selling. They're making a lot of new enemies.

Book publishers have less money than record labels, so less lawyers too