Ripped

By Greg Kot

Subjects: Internet, Internet resources, Popular music, Music and the Internet, Music, Sound recording industry, Music trade, Kulturwandel, Music, computer network resources, Sound recordings, Computer network resources, Social aspects, History, Musikleben, Internet, social aspects

Description: "Ripped" tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new grassroots music industry, with the fans and bands rather than the corporations in charge. In this new world, bands aren't just musicmakers but self-contained multimedia businesses; and fans aren't just consumers but distributors and even collaborators.