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In the 1930s, as synchronized recorded sound began to replace live musicians who played in movie theaters to score films, the American Federation of Musicians formed a new organization called the Music Defense League and launched an ad campaign against the “menace” of recorded sound — an approach not too far from contemporary techno-paranoia about how the Internet is destroying society, and proof that innovation and anxiety seem to go hand-in-hand.