TY  - BOOK
AU  - Witt,Stephen F.
TI  - How music got free: the inventor, the mogul and the thief 
SN  - 9780099590071 (pbk.) :
U1  - 338.4'778 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Music trade
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Downloading of data
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Industry
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2015; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -