How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention
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This is my favorite book that I've read so far all year, hands down. 👩🏻‍⚖️
You would not expect a history the mp3's rise to ubiquity to read like a thrilling heist, but Stephen Witt manages to find suspense and drama in the details of the story that most people have never heard.Â
Relive the glory days of the late 90's/early 2000's, when the internet was still the wild west and peer-to-peer networks brought multibillion record companies to their knees.Â
This is a must-read if you're interested in media, technology, and the history of the music business.
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Author: Witt, Stephen
Brand: Penguin Books
Color: White
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 320
Release Date: 14-06-2016
Part Number: 0143109340_used
Details: Soon to be an Apple TV+ documentary series One of Billboard’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New York Times Editors’ Choice ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: The Washington Post • The Financial Times • Slate • The Atlantic • Time • Forbes “[How Music Got Free] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy 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.
EAN: 9780143109341
Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
Languages: English