Détail

Titre
Spotify teardown : inside the black box of streaming music
Cote
ML 74.4 S64 E75 2019
Auteur(e)s
Eriksson, Maria, 1988-
Fleischer, Rasmus, 1978-
Johansson, Anna, 1980-
Snickars, Pelle
Vonderau, Patrick
Éditeur
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2019.
Description Physique
ix, 276 pages : illustrations
Abstrait
''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.''
Table des Matières
Introduction -- 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!
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index.
Langage
English
Sujet
Spotify
Music and the Internet
Sound recording industry
ISBN
9780262038904
Localisation
BROADCASTING
Accès
Public
ID
CAT 18079
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