出版社: Viking
副标题: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
出版年: 2015-6-16
页数: 304
定价: USD 27.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525426615
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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...
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.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
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 Gradua...
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.
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整理一波书中提到的歌手/专辑/单曲
我们的免费音乐是哪来的?
《音乐是怎么变成免费午餐的》
不仅是音乐问题,其实是全球电子化的结果
这篇书评可能有关键情节透露
底层厂工、厂妹作为关键的“钥匙”---Dell Glover Dell Glover,一个美国十八线小城里的底层黑人职工。他的主要职责是从CD制造工厂里偷走未发行的唱片。再通过互联网将它秘密的放到私有服务器上,在我们不知道的灰色地带里、看不见的网络中存在着无数个非赢利性组织,所有的成... (展开)> 更多书评 17篇
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可能有人没见过RNS的真容 | 来自Dominus Titus | 2020-07-17 19:13:49 | |
以后不会再轻易说网络改变了音乐行业,电信行业掠... | 来自redhousepainter | 2015-07-12 21:38:17 |
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0 有用 hanena 2021-04-11 09:49:18
两群geeks的故事,how mp3 killed music industry. 非常好看。如某些评论所说,很适合拍纪录片,其实拍个像social network的电影也是可以的。没有太久之前的短短20多年历史,某些也算是经历过的。
0 有用 叶眉 2020-07-04 00:00:03
系统地梳理了音乐数字化以及盗版的发展史。MP3技术出现,唱片公司员工偷窃样品,包括后期的BT技术,到现在的streaming,彻底颠覆了一个行业
0 有用 穿风衣的猫 2016-03-09 00:00:18
壮阔无比的音乐盗版史,线索横陈,因果无迹。真是妙笔生花。
1 有用 旺 2016-04-21 14:17:05
可做写作教材
2 有用 Pepsin 2015-08-18 10:39:26
荡气回肠
0 有用 zixzi 2022-09-22 15:24:33 上海
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。
0 有用 MissUnintended 2022-03-07 12:29:53
醍醐灌顶 写得非常好!
0 有用 Riceman 2022-03-04 07:06:10
原以为是议论文,没想到是侦探小说…精彩
0 有用 世吹卷卷 2021-09-16 10:01:04
专业课推荐的读物,没想到刚好另一门课的期末论文题是讨论音乐产业的资本主义复兴,以及我相信回归付费是不可避免的趋势
0 有用 某迪要早睡 2021-05-19 19:38:31
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。