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How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savv y teenagers. 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 music ever recorded was available for free. In the page-turning 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 artform, 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-read history of the Internet itself.
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##基本上是科技改变（或者扼杀）盈利模式的故事
评分##很有趣的盗版音乐发展史，也是MP3的格式之战史。世界最厉害的盗版者是，宝丽金唱片厂员工代尔格罗夫，最成功的盗版组织RNS。如今流媒体已经快让MP3退出历史舞台了
评分##很有趣的盗版音乐发展史，也是MP3的格式之战史。世界最厉害的盗版者是，宝丽金唱片厂员工代尔格罗夫，最成功的盗版组织RNS。如今流媒体已经快让MP3退出历史舞台了
评分##基本上是把唱片行业的发展历史给捋清楚了，而且从三个不同的角度交叉描述。
评分##可做写作教材
评分##讲了3件事情：一是音频压缩技术是怎么来的，二是唱片盗版是怎么发展的，三是盗版对唱片行业产生了什么影响。细节十分丰富，读起来相当过瘾。
评分##科技让许多曾经稀缺的东西变得无处不在，一个免费MP3版权和iPod, 让如今的流行音乐变得无处不在；一个开源的epub格式和iPhone，也让如今的电子书无处不在。a world of abundance，多么诱人。
评分##可做写作教材
评分##醍醐灌顶 写得非常好！
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