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Iranian protesters continue their march into Friday morning despite a total Iran internet blackout in January 2026. Analysis of the clash between digital control and physical defiance.

On Jan 8, 2026, Iran implemented a nationwide internet blackout amidst economic protests. Monitoring firms like Cloudflare confirm the country is effectively offline.

Activist group 'Anna's Archive' claims to have scraped nearly 300TB of data from Spotify, making metadata for millions of tracks available via torrent. Here's what this means for the music industry and data ownership.