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050 0 0 _aML3790
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100 1 _aWitt, Stephen,
245 1 0 _aHow music got free :
_bthe end of an industry, the turn of the century, and the patient zero of piracy /
_cStephen Witt.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bViking,
_c2015.
300 _a296 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (271-286) and index.
520 _aA 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.--From publisher description.
650 0 _aSound recording industry.
650 0 _aMusic and the Internet.
650 0 _aSound recordings
_xPirated editions.
650 0 _aMP3 (Audio coding standard)
_xHistory.
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