How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Name: How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
Author: Stephen Witt
ISBN: 9780525426615

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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Stephen Witt

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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.

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