How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00UJZZU8I |
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| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. "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. 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 ever recorded was available for free. 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..
"Absolutely fascinatingfor anyone" according to Jersey guy. History of the MPAbsolutely 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. 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. ? 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. 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. A great book that falls short of being perfect 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, e. Claudio Delgift said Captivating read, a prose that flows. 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 thems