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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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##醍醐灌顶 写得非常好！
评分##可做写作教材
评分##简直像看小说一样
评分##很有趣的盗版音乐发展史，也是MP3的格式之战史。世界最厉害的盗版者是，宝丽金唱片厂员工代尔格罗夫，最成功的盗版组织RNS。如今流媒体已经快让MP3退出历史舞台了
评分##信息可以复制，所有权不可以。for capitalism to work, in a digital age, sharing had to be penalised. 知识产权也是中国经济发展到如今，再生活力的需要。再过十年来看吧……
评分##系统地梳理了音乐数字化以及盗版的发展史。MP3技术出现，唱片公司员工偷窃样品，包括后期的BT技术，到现在的streaming，彻底颠覆了一个行业
评分##讲了3件事情：一是音频压缩技术是怎么来的，二是唱片盗版是怎么发展的，三是盗版对唱片行业产生了什么影响。细节十分丰富，读起来相当过瘾。
评分##好看！同样作为下载一代，在远东大陆懵懵懂懂地参与了几乎每一步的风潮的变化。而其中技术的变化是我读了博士之后才了解的，对行业的影响更是从没想过。作者从几个看似毫不相关的线头切入后又编织成一个你我都在其中的故事，读起来像是侦探小说一样过瘾。
评分呵呵，不知道哪家电影公司能看中这本书，开拍纪录片。
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