Mp3 compression enabled mass distribution of white power music online.
Evidence
Another highly sophisticated site is Micetrap’s White Pride Network. This page also provides a library of 250 white power tracks that can be downloaded through a form of sound file compression called mp3s, which make it possible to record a whole song in a file that takes up only a few megabytes of memory. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2555
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the broader technology-and-extremism literature — how file-sharing infrastructure shaped radical subculture growth.