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.
##音乐是免费的吗?在互联网初始阶段,不免费的东西都没人用,但现在随着互联网的快速发展,付费软件和音视频越来越多,譬如现在不花钱有些音乐就无法听到,有些视频就看不到……但是,整体来说,大部分音乐还是免费,这得益于三点: 1.MP3技术的普及:MP3之父勃兰登堡在1995年底...
评分##一个十年磨一剑打造mp3音频格式的德国工程师,一个把数千张音乐CD上传到网络的工厂流水线工人,一个曾在三大唱片厂商任职的音乐产业的教父,他们的生活会有怎样的交集?作者交叉了三个人的故事,讲述世纪之交数字格式和互联网给音乐行业带来的巨变,也把「盗版是否是非正义的」...
评分 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##方便自己了解世界流行音乐史的一些记录 与大家分享(整理不全) 音乐小白看完这本书之后除了被书中的故事所吸引,随着最后结局的尘埃落定而为世界实体唱片行业的衰落难过时,还被安利了一大堆世界知名的音乐人,由于故事发生的时期正好是摇滚乐大行其道的年份,因此书中提到的...
评分##简直像看小说一样
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。
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