Stephen Witt was born in New Hampshire in 1979 and raised in the Midwest. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in mathematics in 2001. He spent the next six years playing the stock market, working for hedge funds in Chicago and New York. Following a two-year stint in East Africa working in economic development, he graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2011. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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.
##音樂是免費的嗎?在互聯網初始階段,不免費的東西都沒人用,但現在隨著互聯網的快速發展,付費軟件和音視頻越來越多,譬如現在不花錢有些音樂就無法聽到,有些視頻就看不到……但是,整體來說,大部分音樂還是免費,這得益於三點: 1.MP3技術的普及:MP3之父勃蘭登堡在1995年底...
評分##mp3及其引領的盜版音樂色前世今生話說蘋果真的應該算是在這個大風口上起飛的一坨..非豬。
評分 評分##醍醐灌頂 寫得非常好!
評分##方便自己瞭解世界流行音樂史的一些記錄 與大傢分享(整理不全) 音樂小白看完這本書之後除瞭被書中的故事所吸引,隨著最後結局的塵埃落定而為世界實體唱片行業的衰落難過時,還被安利瞭一大堆世界知名的音樂人,由於故事發生的時期正好是搖滾樂大行其道的年份,因此書中提到的...
評分##很好看。MP3發明者、唱片公司老闆、盜版組織核心成員,三個角度交織描繪齣瞭MP3、CD、盜版的興衰,以及聽音樂這事是怎麼逐漸走到現在這一步的。
評分 評分 評分##簡直像看小說一樣
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