03131cam a2200505 i 4500 118435 118435 18527018 BJBSDDR 20230411090910.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 150316s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 2015010568 9780525426615 0525426612 DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc ML 3790 W827h 2015 381/.45780266 Witt, Stephen, 28395 1979- How music got free : the end of an industry, the turn of the century, and the patient zero of piracy / Stephen Witt. New York : Viking, 2015. 296 pages ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (271-286) and index. 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. Witt 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.--From publisher description. Sound recording industry. Music and the Internet. Sound recordings Pirated editions. MP3 (Audio coding standard) History. Industria discográfica 28396 Industria de la música 15141 Música por internet 28397 Música e informática 28398 MP3 (Programa para computador) 3183 Ediciones piratas de grabaciones sonoras 28399 Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1510/2015010568-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1510/2015010568-d.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1510/2015010568-s.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-01-12 0 ML 3790 W827h 2015 00000163122 2023-01-12 00:00:00 1 2023-01-12 BK