An 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. Spotify Teardown 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. 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. The 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
behavior.
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