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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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呵呵，不知道哪家电影公司能看中这本书，开拍纪录片。
评分##很好看。MP3发明者、唱片公司老板、盗版组织核心成员，三个角度交织描绘出了MP3、CD、盗版的兴衰，以及听音乐这事是怎么逐渐走到现在这一步的。
评分##在VeryCD和BT/PT下载的神话中长大的两代人绝对会感兴趣的一本书。从MP3的诞生起头，讲述了互联网发展和数据压缩技术伴生的PTP传输盗版史及同时期唱片业变迁。聚焦关键人物的写法虽然引人入胜，大事件的前因后果就只能被浓缩进夹叙夹议的抒情里了，殊为可惜。
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##两群geeks的故事，how mp3 killed music industry. 非常好看。如某些评论所说，很适合拍纪录片，其实拍个像social network的电影也是可以的。没有太久之前的短短20多年历史，某些也算是经历过的。
评分##基本上是科技改变（或者扼杀）盈利模式的故事
评分##可做写作教材
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##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
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