How music got free : the inventor, the mogul and the thief / Stephen Witt.
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TextPublisher: London : Vintage, 2016Description: 306 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780099590071 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Music trade | Music trade -- Corrupt practices | Downloading of data -- Economic aspects | Industry | IndustryDDC classification: 338.4'778 Summary: This volume tells a blistering story of obsession, music, crime, and money featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-gifted teenagers. It's about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website six times the size of iTunes. It starts with a small-time thief at a CD-pressing plant, leads to the multi-million-dollar top tables of the music industry and from audio laboratories into the secret recesses of the online world. That story opens up the watershed moment in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with the world online - and part of the reason was the sudden availability of all the music ever recorded, for free.
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Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume tells a blistering story of obsession, music, crime, and money featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-gifted teenagers. It's about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website six times the size of iTunes. It starts with a small-time thief at a CD-pressing plant, leads to the multi-million-dollar top tables of the music industry and from audio laboratories into the secret recesses of the online world. That story opens up the watershed moment in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with the world online - and part of the reason was the sudden availability of all the music ever recorded, for free.
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