How Music Got Free
A Story of Obsession and Invention
Stephen Witt
This book tells the thrilling story of digital music piracy and how it forever changed the music industry. Written by journalist Stephen Witt, it features a cast of unforgettable characters including visionaries, criminals, and tech-savvy teenagers. Witt traces the secret history of piracy from the German engineers who invented the mp3 to a North Carolina factory worker who leaked nearly two thousand albums. Entwined with the history of the Internet itself, How Music Got Free is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of music and technology.
Publish Date
2015-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
2015-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.23
ISBN
9780143109341
Categories
Recommendations
3
Recommendations
2020-09-13T22:30:06.000Z
Books on the music industry you should read:“How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention, Stephen Witt
The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood, Dennis McDougal
Please Kill Me: Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain – source2020-12-31T17:54:05.000Z
Adding some history of science and tech books that I enjoyed this year:
- Skunk Works
- The Code Book
- How Music Got Free
- The Infinite Machine
- A Crack in Creation
- Working in Public
- No Filter
- Super Pumped
- Losing the Signal
- Autonomy
- How Innovation Works – source