There’s a New Book on the Origins of Spotify–And Apparently Spotify Wasn’t Very Happy with the Authors
How much do we know about the organization behind Spotify? Not much, really–which is exactly why a group of researchers decided to dive into the Spotify story. That led to an interesting discovery about early links between Spotify and the notorious The Pirate Bay. TorrentFreak offers this interesting preview:
As one of the members of Sweden’s infamous Piratbyrån (Piracy Bureau), Rasmus Fleischer was also one of early key figures at The Pirate Bay. Over the years he’s been a writer, researcher, debater, and musician, and in 2012 he finished his PhD thesis on “music’s political economy.”
As part of a five-person research team (Pelle Snickars, Patrick Vonderau, Anna Johansson, Rasmus Fleischer, Maria Eriksson) funded by the Swedish Research Council, Fleischer has co-written a book about the history of Spotify.
Titled ‘Spotify Teardown – Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music’, the publication is set to shine light on the history of the now famous music service while revealing quite a few past secrets.
With its release scheduled for 2018, Fleischer has already teased a few interesting nuggets, not least that Spotify’s early beta version used ‘pirate’ MP3 files, some of them sourced from The Pirate Bay.
Read on. The book will be published by MIT Press in 2018.
