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Summary: All the Rave Review
Review: Shawn Fanning and his co-founders devote themselves to perfecting their software; Napster's destruction at the hands of greedy profit-takers is heartbreaking. This book shows how U.S. corporate and copyright law can whimsically place a ground-breaking technology under the control of a huckster opportunist. If this narrative is accurate (I have no qualifications to comment on its accuracy), it is a chilling example of why our cultural / intellectual property rights have eroded under the regime of big media.
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Summary: Guardians of Cultural/Intellectual Property Rights?
Review: Shawn Fanning and his co-founders devote themselves to perfecting their software; Napster's destruction at the hands of greedy profit-takers is heartbreaking. This book shows how U.S. corporate and copyright law can whimsically place a ground-breaking technology under the control of a huckster opportunist. If this narrative is accurate (I have no qualifications to comment on its accuracy), it is a chilling example of why our cultural / intellectual property rights have eroded under the regime of big media.
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Summary: Good description of napster story
Review: This was a good and entertaining book about what happened with Napster, including some details that I haven't seen elsewhere in print.
A couple of quibbles. When the author refers to "Fanning" in the book, he means John Fanning, not Shawn. This seems weird to me, given that Shawn Fanning's name is in the subtitle of the book.
And Unix is an operating system, not a programming language.
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Summary: undistinguished-lightweight-establishment-BLAH
Review: Tried hard to finish this, but couldn't. This is significant because I hate wasting money - and therefore, usually slough through to the finish on even the most unbearable works. But here in Jo Menn's "All The Rave" I found it was everything BUT Interesting and had to throw in the towel after the first 100 pages.Primarily, this book just bored me to death. The prose is written like a long newspaper article and worse still, the storyline delivers nothing but whining. Incessant whining. Nearly every character tortures you with their pleas for a scapegoat; the "WHY" this $100 million project ended up on the scrapheap can be simply put. Summary Judgement.
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Summary: undistinguished-lightweight-establishment-BLAH
Review: Tried hard to finish this, but couldn't. This is significant because I hate wasting money - and therefore, usually slough through to the finish on even the most unbearable works. But here in Jo Menn's "All The Rave" I found it was everything BUT Interesting and had to throw in the towel after the first 100 pages. Primarily, this book just bored me to death. The prose is written like a long newspaper article and worse still, the storyline delivers nothing but whining. Incessant whining. Nearly every character tortures you with their pleas for a scapegoat; the "WHY" this $100 million project ended up on the scrapheap can be simply put. Summary Judgement.
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