Suno scraped 2M+ YouTube songs — and paid Bright Data to do it
a hacked dataset shows suno scraped over 2 million youtube music clips and lyrics from genius to train its ai models, confirming riaa allegations.
hacked source code reveals suno scraped 2,013,545 music clips from youtube, alongside thousands of hours from Deezer, Genius, and Pond5, to train its generation models. The documents detail scraping operations from 420,000 podcasts and the use of Bright Data proxies to circumvent protections. This leak validates the Recording Industry Association of America's claims of massive copyright infringement, proving suno accessed restricted content despite claiming fair use. The breach also compromised data for hundreds of thousands of users, exposing specific payment and personal info.