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COPYRIGHT 2001 MIT Press Journals
Bruce Haring: Beyond the Charts: MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution
Softcover, 2000, ISBN 0-9674517-0-1, 174 pages, illustrated, index; OTC Press, 6363 Sunset Boulevard, 7th floor, Los Angeles, California 90028, USA; World Wide Web www.OFFtheCHARTS.com
Bruce Haring's Beyond the Charts: MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution is a sequel to his Non-Fiction Book of the Year (1997), Off the Charts: Ruthless Days and Reckless Nights Inside the Music Industry. Where the latter book attacks the immense control exerted over music by the marketing mechanisms of giant corporations, Beyond the Charts cuts to the bone of the music industry by criticizing the record companies for hiding in the bushes and thus ignoring the dangers of digital distribution of music through the Internet.
A striking example pointed out by Mr. Haring is the record companies' employment of semi-retired policemen to enforce copyright by raiding street vendors selling pirated copies while computer geeks were already distributing music from "bedroom to bedroom" over the Internet. When the recording industry finally got its act together to attempt to legally define and reinforce copyright for World Wide Web distribution, it was, according to the author, already too late!
But this is not Mr. Haring's only compelling revelation about the record industry's reluctance to enter the digital age. And if you need to catch up on the digital revolution of music distribution and find out why the technical achievement of compressing sound files still has not led to the wide availability of music online, this book is definitely worth both the money and the time.
Through interviews and "soft" technical explanations...
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