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How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and…
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How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention (edizione 2016)

di Stephen Witt (Autore)

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Business. Nonfiction. Entertainment. Economics. HTML:Soon to be an Apple TV+ documentary series

One of Billboards 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

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. Its 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 onlinewhen, suddenly, all the music ever recorded was available for free. In the page-turning tradition of writers like Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright, Witts deeply reported first book introduces the unforgettable charactersinventors, executives, factory workers, and smugglerswho 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 isnt just a story of the music industryits a must-read history of the Internet itself.
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Titolo:How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention
Autori:Stephen Witt (Autore)
Info:Penguin Books (2016), Edition: Reprint, 320 pages
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This was such an enjoyable read. The stories here are a part of my life (and my generation) as a music lover, tech geek, and once pirate, but they're so much deeper and more interesting than I ever knew. ( )
  wsampson13 | Mar 2, 2024 |
Geeky, geeky. Though few stories are genuinely curious, expanding your understanding of format wars and inner workings & machinations of the music business.

Любой пользователь iPod хранит в своем плеере mp3-файл Делла Гловера, добытый когда-то на заводе CD-дисков, причем весьма оригинальным способом. В расследовании, занявшем у автора книги несколько лет, из сумрака, окутывающего рождение и развитие феномена доступной цифровой музыки, выступают сам Гловер, другие бойцы пиратского фронта, а также подковерные интриги боссов студий звукозаписи. 10 августа 1996 года группировка CDA выложила первое в истории пиратское mp3 — песню Until It Sleeps группы Metallica. Через mp3-плеер Winamp (1997), бесплатный ресурс Napster (1999), а затем и Pirate Bay (2003) c торрентами коммерческий контроль корпораций над выпускаемой музыкой был в итоге расшатан. Рекорд-студии в долгу не оставались. Платите ли вы за музыку или нет, эта живо написанная история эпических краж, срывов релизов, битв в судах и остроумных приемов противоборствующих сторон заставит вас по-другому взглянуть на столь привычный атрибут современной жизни.
  Den85 | Jan 3, 2024 |
clearly written, puts the rise of digital music, fans, and pirates into a nice story ( )
  danielskatz | Dec 26, 2023 |
Very interesting to read about a movement that occurred when I was young. It gives a good explanation of many different view points. ( )
  matnac | Nov 12, 2023 |
A very readable account of the rise of the mp3 and its impact on the music industry and consumers.

Witt deftly interweaves the narratives of the scientists and engineers who birthed the new technology and struggled to get it accepted, with music company executives (primarily Doug Morris who worked for several different labels during this tumultuous period) and geeklings on the ground floor of the new fangled internet who were pirating tunes all over the place, much to the chagrin of music bigwigs determined to get those pesky kids. While mostly clear and easy to follow, the author has this dreadful habit of referring to people in multiple ways; the greatest offense is perpetrated against the late Tupac Shakur, who is sometimes Shakur (last name being the standard nomenclature for most individuals most frequently), sometimes Tupac, and sometimes just Pac (as though he is a personal friend who merits a nickname). There's also an intermittent tendency to sound like a snarky bitch, which is intended to be funny but instead sounds like snide insecurity. Nevertheless, the pros outweigh the cons by plenty in this informative chronicle.

This was my first GoodReads FirstReads win (exciting, no?) so thank you to the nice folks at Penguin who sent me an advance review copy. ( )
  fionaanne | Nov 11, 2021 |
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Business. Nonfiction. Entertainment. Economics. HTML:Soon to be an Apple TV+ documentary series

One of Billboards 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

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. Its 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 onlinewhen, suddenly, all the music ever recorded was available for free. In the page-turning tradition of writers like Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright, Witts deeply reported first book introduces the unforgettable charactersinventors, executives, factory workers, and smugglerswho 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 isnt just a story of the music industryits a must-read history of the Internet itself.

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