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A review by drmspikes
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt
4.0
Witt tells a compelling story but stumbles at points where he attempts to juggle multiple stories, and also unwittingly jams opinions on his own music tastes into the narrative at jarring moments.
He attempts to tell the tale of the development of the MP3 as an audio format, the history of piracy primarily through the experience of a "patient zero" of piracy, a blue collar CD stamping plant worker in North Carolina, and the tale of music executives who brought pop music to where it is today. In all honesty, I think he could have dropped the MP3 development story, as its probably the most wonky throughout the book. Over all though, it was a worthwhile read.
He attempts to tell the tale of the development of the MP3 as an audio format, the history of piracy primarily through the experience of a "patient zero" of piracy, a blue collar CD stamping plant worker in North Carolina, and the tale of music executives who brought pop music to where it is today. In all honesty, I think he could have dropped the MP3 development story, as its probably the most wonky throughout the book. Over all though, it was a worthwhile read.