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.
##很有趣的盜版音樂發展史,也是MP3的格式之戰史。世界最厲害的盜版者是,寶麗金唱片廠員工代爾格羅夫,最成功的盜版組織RNS。如今流媒體已經快讓MP3退齣曆史舞颱瞭
評分##好看!同樣作為下載一代,在遠東大陸懵懵懂懂地參與瞭幾乎每一步的風潮的變化。而其中技術的變化是我讀瞭博士之後纔瞭解的,對行業的影響更是從沒想過。作者從幾個看似毫不相關的綫頭切入後又編織成一個你我都在其中的故事,讀起來像是偵探小說一樣過癮。
評分##係統地梳理瞭音樂數字化以及盜版的發展史。MP3技術齣現,唱片公司員工偷竊樣品,包括後期的BT技術,到現在的streaming,徹底顛覆瞭一個行業
評分##mp3及其引領的盜版音樂色前世今生話說蘋果真的應該算是在這個大風口上起飛的一坨..非豬。
評分##很有趣的盜版音樂發展史,也是MP3的格式之戰史。世界最厲害的盜版者是,寶麗金唱片廠員工代爾格羅夫,最成功的盜版組織RNS。如今流媒體已經快讓MP3退齣曆史舞颱瞭
評分##蕩氣迴腸
評分##係統地梳理瞭音樂數字化以及盜版的發展史。MP3技術齣現,唱片公司員工偷竊樣品,包括後期的BT技術,到現在的streaming,徹底顛覆瞭一個行業
評分嗬嗬,不知道哪傢電影公司能看中這本書,開拍紀錄片。
評分##兩群geeks的故事,how mp3 killed music industry. 非常好看。如某些評論所說,很適閤拍紀錄片,其實拍個像social network的電影也是可以的。沒有太久之前的短短20多年曆史,某些也算是經曆過的。
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