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Loading... How music got free : the end of an industry, the turn of the century, and the patient zero of piracy (edition 2015)by Stephen Witt
Work InformationHow Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt
   Books Read in 2016 (2,978) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) wsampson13 | Mar 2, 2024 |  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 |  ) danielskatz | Dec 26, 2023 | ) matnac | Nov 12, 2023 | 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 | no reviews | add a review
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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 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. 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. No library descriptions found. |
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