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001 2015010568
003 DLC
005 20151211084246.0
008 150316s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015010568
020 $a9780525426615
020 $a0525426612
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aML3790$b.W59 2015
082 00 $a381/.45780266$223
100 1 $aWitt, Stephen,$eauthor.
245 10 $aHow music got free :$bthe end of an industry, the turn of the century, and the patient zero of piracy /$cStephen Witt.
264 1 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2015.
300 $a296 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (271-286) and index.
520 $aA 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.
650 0 $aSound recording industry.
650 0 $aMusic and the Internet.
650 0 $aSound recordings$xPirated editions.
650 0 $aMP3 (Audio coding standard)$xHistory.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1510/2015010568-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1510/2015010568-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1510/2015010568-s.html