This book got a lot of hype when it came out. It has an intriguing premise. The Earth's music has been drifting out into the cosmos since the 1970s and has been a huge hit with the aliens of the Refined League who have been making billions of copies of our songs. One small problem. The law of the Refined League make it so they are bound by the laws of the content producers - so they owe us tons of money for their illegally copied songs. Low level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter is visited by alien emissaries trying to resolve the debt before other aliens destroy the Earth so they won't all be broke from owing us for the songs. This book is written in the tone of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy but its not as successful with the wit and humor. There are also Terry Pratchettesque footnotes throughout the book as well. The overall idea of the book was interesting enough for me to keep reading to the end but the writing style was irritating by that point.
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