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For the last 10,000 people still flying the audio jolly roger in the age of Spotify, this book will be utterly fascinating. For everyone else, it will be plain fascinating.
How Music Got Free is the story of the near-aborted birth of the mp3 file format, the monopolistic dominance of major music labels in the '80s and '90s, and the emergence of piracy, which made the mp3 format holy and the godly music labels considerably less holy. Like every good story , it's told as a tale of people--a frustrated group of perfectionist German audio engineers , a factory floor worker who stole tens of thousands of CDs, a power-hungry music label titan, plus a huge coterie of other musically inclined folks.
The book explains the history of a phenomenon--music piracy--which nearly everyone has participated in at some time or another, but few have likely thought hard about it. At its best points, the story touches on the motivations of key characters who started the fire of piracy; at its worst point, it tells the story in unforgettable entertaining passion.
Plus, since the author reveals that he's pirated a thing or two in his day, you (not me) might decide that it's okay to grab this book for free somewhere. And what's better than free knowledge about free stuff?
How Music Got Free is the story of the near-aborted birth of the mp3 file format, the monopolistic dominance of major music labels in the '80s and '90s, and the emergence of piracy, which made the mp3 format holy and the godly music labels considerably less holy. Like every good story , it's told as a tale of people--a frustrated group of perfectionist German audio engineers , a factory floor worker who stole tens of thousands of CDs, a power-hungry music label titan, plus a huge coterie of other musically inclined folks.
The book explains the history of a phenomenon--music piracy--which nearly everyone has participated in at some time or another, but few have likely thought hard about it. At its best points, the story touches on the motivations of key characters who started the fire of piracy; at its worst point, it tells the story in unforgettable entertaining passion.
Plus, since the author reveals that he's pirated a thing or two in his day, you (not me) might decide that it's okay to grab this book for free somewhere. And what's better than free knowledge about free stuff?