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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 Author:Stephen Richard Witt The gripping untold story of the music piracy revolution and the inventors, executives, factory workers and tech pirates that changed the world — How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime and money featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-gifted teenagers. It?s about the greatest pirate in history, the most pow... more »erful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website six times the size of iTunes.
Journalist Stephen Witt traces the rise of digital music from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of midtown Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the secret recesses of the online world.
Through these interwoven narratives, Witt has written a thrilling book that depicts the moment in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with the world online ? when, suddenly, all the music ever recorded was available on the web, for free. Neither music nor the world has been the same since.
An irresistible never-before-told story of greed, cunning, genius, and deceit, How Music Got Free isn?t just a story of the music industry?it?s a must-read history of the Internet itself.« less
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