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100	1		_aEriksson, Maria, _d1988- _eauthor.
245			_aSpotify Teardown : inside the black box of streaming music / _bInside the Black Box of Streaming Music / _cMaria Eriksson, Rasmus Fleischer, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars, and Patrick Vonderau.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bMIT Press, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_aix, 276 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_a Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Intervention: The Swedish unicorn -- 1. Where is Spotify? -- Intervention: Record label setup -- 2. When do files become music? -- Intervention: How we track streams -- 3. How does Spotify package music? -- Intervention: Too much data -- 4. What is the value of free? -- Intervention: Introducing Songblocker -- Conclusion -- Intervention: Work at Spotify!
520			_aSpotify 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. 'Spotify Teardown' 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.
630	0	0	_aSpotify.
650		0	_aMusic and the Internet.
650		0	_aSound recording industry.
700	1		_aFleischer, Rasmus, _d1978- _eauthor.
700	1		_aJohansson, Anna, _d1980- _eauthor.
700	1		_aSnickars, Pelle, _qauthor.
700	1		_aVonderau, Patrick, _qauthor.
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