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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 storm that forever changed the way we consume music took shape. Like many great works of investigative journalism it makes it clear that this is one of those stories you think you know. Until you realise you don't' John Niven, The Spectator `Reads like an underworld crime story... concise and very funny... The most remarkable thing about Witt's book is that virtually none of the names is familiar... Witt finds unlikely heroes in unlikely places' New Statesman
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099590071
SKU
V9780099590071
Shipping Time
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99-99
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 in the Midwest and graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in mathematics. He spent the next six years working for hedge funds in Chicago and New York. Following a spell 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 his first book.
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. . . . Even if you're not a music geek, How Music Got Free is one of the most gripping investigative books of the year.
Vice
Like Bond meets 28 Days Later... Witt tells a thrilling tale, with a cast of music biz bigwigs, painstaking German boffins, and pirates and petty thieves. Witt's writing reminded me of all my favourite modern essayists: Remnick, Franzen and John Jeremiah Sullivan. I loved it
Colin Greenwood, Radiohead Brilliant... Like many great works of investigative journalism it makes it clear that this is one of those stories you think you know until you realise you don't
John Niven
The Spectator
A fantastic book and a scintillating achievement
Felix Martin, author of Money: the unauthorised biography
Nick Hornby
Sunday Times
Incredible, possibly canonical. . . . A story that's too bizarre to make up, but needed to be told. . . . Even if you're not a music geek, How Music Got Free is one of the most gripping investigative books of the year.
Vice
Like Bond meets 28 Days Later... Witt tells a thrilling tale, with a cast of music biz bigwigs, painstaking German boffins, and pirates and petty thieves. Witt's writing reminded me of all my favourite modern essayists: Remnick, Franzen and John Jeremiah Sullivan. I loved it
Colin Greenwood, Radiohead Brilliant... Like many great works of investigative journalism it makes it clear that this is one of those stories you think you know until you realise you don't
John Niven
The Spectator
A fantastic book and a scintillating achievement
Felix Martin, author of Money: the unauthorised biography