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.
##好看!同样作为下载一代,在远东大陆懵懵懂懂地参与了几乎每一步的风潮的变化。而其中技术的变化是我读了博士之后才了解的,对行业的影响更是从没想过。作者从几个看似毫不相关的线头切入后又编织成一个你我都在其中的故事,读起来像是侦探小说一样过瘾。 关于这本我翻译的《音乐是怎么变成免费午餐的》,我有好多掏心窝的话想向所有对这本书感兴趣、支持了这本书、购买了这本书和/或阅读了这本书的朋友讲…… 掏心窝话之一:关于翻译的最初动机 其实我2016年读到《How Music Got Free》这本书的时候,私底下就已经在动手翻译了。当...
评分 评分 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 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 评分 评分##mp3及其引领的盗版音乐色前世今生话说苹果真的应该算是在这个大风口上起飞的一坨..非猪。
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