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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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#948 of 3,809 books · #15 in Business & Economics

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award (2015), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2015), and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2016).

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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Publisher
Viking Penguin
ISBN-13
9780525426615
Topics
Music piracyDigital music industryMP3 technology

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