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Jul 21, 2015 · In 2007, with the record business well into a seemingly bottomless free fall, Doug Morris, the chairman and chief executive of the Universal Music Group, was interviewed by Wired magazine.
Jun 15, 2015 · Stephen Witt’s nimble new book, “How Music Got Free,” is the richest explanation to date about how the arrival of the MP3 upended almost everything about how music is distributed, consumed ...
Jul 14, 2024 · How did this happen? The rock doc How Music Got Free (airing on Paramount+) investigates what basically destroyed the music industry. The documentary, which used the excellent book from author Stephen Witt for its inspiration, has an odd conglomerate of producers, including the NBA’s LeBron James, his agent Maverick Carter, and Marshall ...
The book chronicles the invention of the MP3 format for audio information, detailing the efforts by researchers such as Karlheinz Brandenburg, Bernhard Grill and Harald Popp to analyze human hearing and successfully compress songs in a form that can be easily transmitted.
- Stephen Richard Witt
- 2015
Apr 5, 2016 · With the rapid rise and fall of Napster, music lovers realized that both music could be downloaded onto a computer without purchasing anything at a store and could be stored on computers, mp3 players, and smart phones. This let to the rapid end of music stores like Tower Music and Wherehouse Music.
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...
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Nov 17, 2018 · Why “Everything Is Free” is the Song of the 21st Century Music Industry. Upon listening to Gillian Welch’s “Everything Is Free,” one might imagine that the slow, fingerpicked guitar and subtle harmonies were recorded far before the internet, on a tape in some far-off corner of America.
