How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention - Stephen Witt

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nFinalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year nOne of Billboard's 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time n nA New York Times Editors' Choice n nONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: The Washington Post - The Financial Times - Slate - The Atlantic - Time - Forbes n n How Music Got Free] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book.--Dwight Garner, The New York Times n nWhat happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? n nHow Music Got Free is a 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. n nJournalist 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. n nThrough these interwoven narratives, Witt has written a thrilling book that depicts the moment in history when ordinary life became forever ent

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