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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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##荡气回肠
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##基本上是科技改变（或者扼杀）盈利模式的故事
评分##荡气回肠
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##科技让许多曾经稀缺的东西变得无处不在，一个免费MP3版权和iPod, 让如今的流行音乐变得无处不在；一个开源的epub格式和iPhone，也让如今的电子书无处不在。a world of abundance，多么诱人。
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……
评分呵呵，不知道哪家电影公司能看中这本书，开拍纪录片。
评分##简直像看小说一样
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