How music got free
Subtitle: a story of obsession and invention
By: Stephen Witt
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780143109341
Subjects: Downloading of data; Corrupt practices; MP3 (Audio coding standard); Sound recording industry; Music and the Internet; Music trade; Sound recordings; Pirated editions; Economic aspects; History
Description: Journalist Stephen Witt traces the 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.
Notes: First published in the USA as: How music got free : the end of an industry, the turn of the century, and the Patient Zero of piracy. New York : Viking, 2015. Reprinted with new afterword (pages 267-276).

Includes bibliographical references and index.