
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780525426615
- Genre
- Business & Economics
- Topics
- Music piracyDigital music industryMP3 technology
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(2015)
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