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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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##在VeryCD和BT/PT下載的神話中長大的兩代人絕對會感興趣的一本書。從MP3的誕生起頭，講述瞭互聯網發展和數據壓縮技術伴生的PTP傳輸盜版史及同時期唱片業變遷。聚焦關鍵人物的寫法雖然引人入勝，大事件的前因後果就隻能被濃縮進夾敘夾議的抒情裏瞭，殊為可惜。
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##基本上是科技改變（或者扼殺）盈利模式的故事
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##原以為是議論文，沒想到是偵探小說…精彩
評分##蕩氣迴腸
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##講瞭3件事情：一是音頻壓縮技術是怎麼來的，二是唱片盜版是怎麼發展的，三是盜版對唱片行業産生瞭什麼影響。細節十分豐富，讀起來相當過癮。
評分##原以為是議論文，沒想到是偵探小說…精彩
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