For most of its history, recorded music has been tied to hard, physical media: records, tapes, CDs and so forth. Since the emergence of the internet, however, everything has been very different: music can be copied (endlessly), easily stolen, cut, pasted, sampled and so forth. The course offers an insight into today’s promise and problems, all of which stem from the moment when music became weightless and could suddenly be sent around the world in a split second.