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245 10 a| Spotify teardown :b| inside the black box of streaming music /c| Maria Eriksson, Rasmus Fleischer, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars, and Patrick Vonderau.;

260 a| Cambridge, MA :b| The MIT Press,c| 2019.;

300 a| ix, 276 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-271) and index.;

520 a| Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at a price. This book contests the tired claim that digital culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of 'teardown' from reverse-engineering processes, a team of five researchers have playfully disassembled Spotify's product and the way it is commonly understood. Spotify has been hailed as the solution to illicit downloading, but it began as a partly illicit enterprise that grew out of the Swedish file-sharing community. Spotify was originally praised as an innovative digital platform but increasingly resembles a media company in need of regulation, raising questions about the ways in which such cultural content as songs, books, and films are now typically made available online. This book combines interviews, participant observations, and other analyses of Spotify's 'front end' with experimental, covert investigations of its 'back end'. The authors engaged in a series of interventions, which include establishing a record label for research purposes, intercepting network traffic with packet sniffers, and web-scraping corporate materials. Their innovative digital methods earned them a stern letter from Spotify accusing them of violating its terms of use; the company later threatened their research funding. Thus, the book itself became an intervention into the ethics and legal frameworks of corporate behavior.;

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Spotify teardown : inside the black box of streaming music / Maria Eriksson, Rasmus Fleischer, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars, and Patrick Vonderau.

Author/creator	Eriksson, Maria, 1988- author.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2019.
Description	ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects	Spotify. Music and the Internet. Sound recording industry.

Other author/creator	Fleischer, Rasmus, 1978- author.
Other author/creator	Johansson, Anna, 1980- author.
Other author/creator	Snickars, Pelle, author.
Other author/creator	Vonderau, Patrick, author.
Contents	Introduction -- Intervention: the Swedish unicorn -- Where is Spotify? Intervention: record label setup -- When do files become music? Intervention: how we track streams -- How does Spotify package music? Intervention: too much data -- What is the value of free? Intervention: introducing Songblocker -- Conclusion -- Intervention: work at Spotify!
Abstract	Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at a price. This book contests the tired claim that digital culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of 'teardown' from reverse-engineering processes, a team of five researchers have playfully disassembled Spotify's product and the way it is commonly understood. Spotify has been hailed as the solution to illicit downloading, but it began as a partly illicit enterprise that grew out of the Swedish file-sharing community. Spotify was originally praised as an innovative digital platform but increasingly resembles a media company in need of regulation, raising questions about the ways in which such cultural content as songs, books, and films are now typically made available online. This book combines interviews, participant observations, and other analyses of Spotify's 'front end' with experimental, covert investigations of its 'back end'. The authors engaged in a series of interventions, which include establishing a record label for research purposes, intercepting network traffic with packet sniffers, and web-scraping corporate materials. Their innovative digital methods earned them a stern letter from Spotify accusing them of violating its terms of use; the company later threatened their research funding. Thus, the book itself became an intervention into the ethics and legal frameworks of corporate behavior.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-271) and index.
LCCN	2018011908
ISBN	9780262038904 (paperback)
ISBN	0262038900 (paperback)
ISBN	9780262349680
ISBN	026234968X

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