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Stephen Witt es un periodista y escritor estadounidense especializado en temas de tecnología y cultura digital. Ha colaborado con medios como The New Yorker y The New York Times, y es conocido por su análisis sobre la evolución de la industria musical en la era digital.

Known for: 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

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How Music Got Free es una investigación sobre la revolución digital que transformó la industria musical. Stephen Witt explora cómo la piratería, la compresión de audio y la distribución en línea cambiaron para siempre la forma en que se produce y consume la música, centrándose en las personas y tecnologías que impulsaron este cambio.

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The Birth of MP3 and the Scientists Who Changed Sound

The digital revolution in music began not with rock stars or record labels, but with a quiet group of engineers in a Bavarian lab. At the Fraunhofer Institute in Erlangen, Karlheinz Brandenburg and his colleagues were obsessed with one seemingly impossible goal: how to compress sound. Their early ch...

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The Leaks: Dell Glover and the Secret Supply of the Internet

Every revolution has its foot soldiers, and Dell Glover was one of mine. Working at the CD manufacturing plant in North Carolina, Glover lived two lives: by day, a line worker burning discs for the biggest labels in the world; by night, a digital smuggler, part of a secret network that uploaded musi...

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About Stephen Witt

Stephen Witt es un periodista y escritor estadounidense especializado en temas de tecnología y cultura digital. Ha colaborado con medios como The New Yorker y The New York Times, y es conocido por su análisis sobre la evolución de la industria musical en la era digital.

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