{"product_id":"spotify-teardown-by-rasmus-fleischer-9780262038904","title":"Spotify Teardown","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience. Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at a price.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpotify Teardown\u003c\/em\u003e contests the tired claim that digital culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of \"teardown\" from reverse-engineering processes, in this book a team of five researchers have playfully disassembled Spotify's product and the way it is commonly understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpotify 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpotify Teardown\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors' 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 behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46342704267500,"sku":"9780262038904","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7502053482281.jpg?v=1743935881","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/spotify-teardown-by-rasmus-fleischer-9780262038904","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}