Soon to be an Apple TV+ documentary series One of Billboard's 100
Greatest Music Books of All Time Finalist for the Los Angeles Times
Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Financial
Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New York Times
Editors' Choice ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: The Washington Post *
The Financial Times * Slate * The Atlantic * Time * Forbes "[How
Music Got Free] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen
of a Michael Lewis book."-Dwight Garner, The New York Times What
happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? How 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. 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. In the page-turning tradition of
writers like Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright, Witt's deeply
reported first book 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. An irresistible never-before-told story of
greed, cunning, genius, and deceit, How Music Got Free isn't just a
story of the music industry-it's a must-read history of the
Internet itself.
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