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: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
		How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year

One of Billboard’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time

A New York Times Editors’ Choice

ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: The Washington Post • The Financial Times • Slate • The Atlantic • Time • Forbes

“[How Music Got Free] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

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.

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A very interesting read. I think this book would appeal to two types of people: 1) Gen X-ers and Y-ers who were around for much of the digital revolution of music (I started college in 1999, right when networking and Napster were becoming huge); and 2) business and marketing strategists. The beginning of the book is more about creating the technology (which I really liked as an engineer) and format wars. The latter half was more about coming to grips with the digital era from a business perspective, and how pirating affected the industry. Highly recommend if you dig music.

I still buy CDs and rip them, and will continue to do so as long as I can find them. I think there's room to have both mediums, and an interesting add-on chapter or sequel could be the resurgence of vinyl. I do think Spotify is terrible for the industry, as convenient as it is.

The story of the (few!) people who enabled the ubiquitous digital piracy of my generation's youth illuminates a period none of us understood. The book represents and contrasts all the major players' perspectives, and illustrates how they impacted one another, and indeed the entire world. Superbly written, this book should be read by everyone for whom downloading music was a fact of life, and by anyone interested in how the next technology disruption might occur.

Truly a fascinating read. I got a little lost with all the abbreviations which is why I gave it 4 stars, but otherwise as a read it only gets better and better, particularly when you get closer to todays era of music/video distribution. Highly recommend for anyone interested in the evolution of music production

The book identifies the main people behind all the piracy of the 1980s and 1990's. Cover the main programs and web sites used. Covers the invention of the MP3 file and how it won the format war. It covers all the key players in the Hip Hop screen. A good read if your interested in computers and music.

Would be nice though if the author provided some thoughts and/or advice about what the recording industry might have done. We all will be poorer if content makers are not paid sufficiently.

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