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How Music Got Free

The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

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How Music Got Free

Von: Stephen Witt
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"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. 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. Musik
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after hearing a book about Napster and reading an article abaout the German Frauenhofer institute related to mp3 I was intrieged to get more information. I like the multiple sides which are highlighted by Stephen Will and for me it was interesting how the music industry was sleeping and not understanding what is going on. This was not organized crime, it was a subculture, which saw copyright as a done practice, but partly also earnig some pocket money with this. I am sure iTunes never would happen, if this subculture did not exist. Which subculture is disrupting other parts of our life and we sleep today?! A question which raised this book ...

... the music industry was sleeping or ...

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Interessant gut geschrieben und packend, bei langen passagen habe ich trotzdem dann und wann das interesse verloren und nicht versucht die einzelheiten zu verstehen.

Interessante geschichte, gute recherche

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