How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143109340 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Absolutely fascinatingfor anyone History of the MP3? How data compression works? This must be a book for technoweenies, right? Wrong.It's an extremely well-written book about the music industry and the greed, fear, and loathing within it, and how it was upended by the "darknet" and a bunch of guys who stole music from Universal and other insanely-profitable goliaths (a CD ultimately cost Absolutely fascinatingfor anyone Jersey guy History of the MP3? How data compression works? This must be a book for technoweenies, right? Wrong.It's an extremely well-written book about the music industry and the greed, fear, and loathing within it, and how it was upended by the "darknet" and a bunch of guys who stole music from Universal and other insanely-profitable goliaths (a CD ultimately cost 40 cents to produce including liner and case and sold for $16) and gave it to hackers who stole music for the thrill of it to beat the Big La. 0 cents to produce including liner and case and sold for $16) and gave it to hackers who stole music for the thrill of it to beat the Big La. Maxim P. said A great book that falls short of being perfect. Summary:- this is a captivating and very educational book, and I'm happy to recommend it. It's a one-of-a-kind on the market, and the book's flaws shouldn't deter you from reading it.As a musician, a programmer, a composer, and a millennial, I'm greatly interested in understanding the dynamics of the modern music industry. So, I picked up this book with great joy, and I am very glad I read it. As I read, I felt like I was sitting at a cafe with Stephen Witt - a man who is clearly deeply knowled. Captivating read, a prose that flows A music journalist from the US said to me, "If you want to know why is it that I think the music industry is to blame for its own destruction, this book is all you need." I suppose he's right; they didn't want to adapt themselves to the changes, technology-wiseHow Music Got Free is a very entertaining read. The reader gets to know everything that has to do with the way music developed since the 1960's while feeling like Witt is right there in the living room with you, telling how it's all been,
He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in mathematics in 2001. He spent the next six years playing the stock market, working for hedge funds in Chicago and New York. . Following a two-year stint in East Africa working in economic development, he graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2011. Stephen Witt was born in New Hampshire
A complex, groundbreaking story.”—The New York Times Book Review“Whip-smart, superbly reported and indispensable.”—The Washington Post“A lucid, mordantly funny account of the rise of digital music piracy, starting with the story of a worker in a North Carolina CD-pressing plant who personally leaked more than 2,000 albums over eight years.”—Time magazine “Witt’s book is more than just a simple history — or defense — of file sharing, a development most people associate with Napster, but which, according to Witt, involved a much more wide-ranging—and fascinating—story.” —The Seattle Times“A must-read on the rise of privacy. And it tells an amazing story
It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store. Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of midtown Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the darkest recesses of the Internet.Through these interwoven narratives, Witt has written a thrilling book that depicts the moment in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with the world online—when, suddenly, all the musi