How Music Got Free
The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
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Word Count
74,000 words, Guess
Page Count
296 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehowmusicgotfreee0000witt
- Internet Archiveisbn_2900525426614
- ISBN-100525426612
- ISBN-139780525426615
- Library of Congress Control Number2015010568
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number893894936
- Better World Books9780525426615
- Open LibraryOL25691862M
Classifications
- LCCML3790 .W59 2015
- LCCML3790 .W59 2015eb
- LCCML3790.W59 2015
Description
This book is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It's about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store. Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret history of digital music piracy, 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 darkest recesses of the Internet. 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 for free. Witt introduces the unforgettable characters -- inventors, executives, factory workers, and smugglers -- who revolutionized an entire artform, and reveals for the first time the secret underworld of media pirates that transformed our digital lives. - Publisher.
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