How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00UJZZU8I |
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| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-12 |
| 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 Labels to a major release rather than to get rich. It's also the story of how hits are (or were) made and how the music industry, hackers, and oh y. 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 Labels to a major release rather than to get rich. It's also the story of how hits are (or were) made and how the music industry, hackers, and oh y. A great book that falls short of being perfect Maxim P. 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 knowledgeable and full of incredibly interesting stories. As a narrative, the work is captivating. However, as a coherent, edited book, it falls short o. Captivating read, a prose that flows Claudio Delgift 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, coffee mug in hand. Highly recommended to anyone who's a music nuts, also to rising musicians who nowadays see themselves having their music on
In the pause-resisting tradition of writers like Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright, Witt's deeply reported first book introduces the unforgettable characters - inventors, executives, factory workers, and smugglers - who revolutionized an entire art form and reveals for the first time the secret underworld of media pirates that transformed our digital lives. An irresistible, never-before-told story of greed, cunning, genius, and deceit, How Music Got Free isn't just a story of the music industry - it's a must-listen history of the Internet itself.. 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 2,000 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 audiobook that depicts the moment in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with the world online - when suddenly all the music