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How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief
Stephen Witt
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Description for How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief
Paperback. Features the story of an accidental pirate, a mastermind, and a mogul. This book is about obsession, music, obscene money, visionaries and criminals, tycoons and audiophiles with golden ears. It is also about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, and an illegal website six times the size of iTunes. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: KNTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
What links Taylor Swift to a factory worker? Kanye West to a German engineer? Beyonce to a boardroom mogul? They've all changed the face of the music business, in the most unexpected ways. How Music Got Free is the incredible true story of how online piracy and the MP3 revolutionised the way our world works, one track at a time. `This brilliant book tells you exactly how the perfect ... Read more
What links Taylor Swift to a factory worker? Kanye West to a German engineer? Beyonce to a boardroom mogul? They've all changed the face of the music business, in the most unexpected ways. How Music Got Free is the incredible true story of how online piracy and the MP3 revolutionised the way our world works, one track at a time. `This brilliant book tells you exactly how the perfect ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099590071
SKU
V9780099590071
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About Stephen Witt
A member of what he calls the `pirate generation', Stephen Witt has been bootlegging music since the mid-1990s. While amassing an archive of hundreds of thousands of pirated mp3s, he became obsessed with the subject of digital piracy, and eventually changed careers to write this thrilling investigative history. He was born in New Hampshire in 1979, raised ... Read more
Reviews for How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief
Enthralling... A terrific, timely, informative book... Witt is an authoritative, enthusiastic, sure-footed guide, and his research and his storytelling are exemplary... How Music Got Free stands comparison to The Social Network
Nick Hornby
Sunday Times
Incredible, possibly canonical. . . . A story that's too bizarre to make up, but needed to be told. . ... Read more
Nick Hornby
Sunday Times
Incredible, possibly canonical. . . . A story that's too bizarre to make up, but needed to be told. . ... Read more