Rasmus Fleischer

Rasmus Fleischer (1978) is a Swedish historian, musician, freelance journalist and debater. He holds a Ph.D. from the department of contemporary history at Södertörn University College in southern Stockholm.

In 2003, he was one of the founders of Piratbyrån, the anti-copyright organization that, in turn, once founded BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay. Since then he has been lecturing extensively, on subjects related to "the collapse of copyright" and the future of music, at various European conferences addressing art and/or new media.

He lives in Stockholm.

Publications

• Copy Me. Samlade texter från Piratbyrån (editor, with Marcus Kaarto), Stockholm: Roh-Nin, 2005. (Swedish)

• Det postdigitala manifestet: hur musik äger rum, Stockholm: Ink bokförlag, 2009, 80 pp. (Swedish)
  • Postdigitaalinen manifesti, trans. Mikael Brunila, into, 2010, 126 pp. Publisher. Author. (Finnish)

• Boken & Biblioteket, Stockholm: Ink bokförlag, 2011, 192 pp. [1] (Swedish)

• Musikens politiska ekonomi: lagstiftningen, ljudmedierna och försvaret av den levande musiken, Stockholm: Ink bokförlag, 2012, v+630 pp. Based on PhD thesis from Lund University. (Swedish)

• Tapirskrift, Stockholm: Axl Books, 2014, 294 pp. Selected texts from 2010-2013. (Swedish)

• Den svenska enhörningen. Storyn om Spotify (with Pelle Snickars), Mondial, 2018, 188 pp. (Swedish)

• Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music (with Maria Eriksson, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars, and Patrick Vonderau), MIT Press, 2019, 288 pp, EPUB. Publisher. (English)

• Varors värde: kvalitetsvärderingar i konsumentprisindex under 1900-talet (with Daniel Berg), Göteborg: Daidalos, 2023, 338 pp. Publisher. (Swedish)

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Links

• Website
• Blog
• https://tldr.nettime.org/@rasmusfleischer, https://mastodon.nu/@rasmusfleischer (Mastodon), [2]
• Wikipedia