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"What happens when an entire technology commits the same crime?" How Music Received Free is a riveting tale of obsession, music, crime, and money, presenting visionaries and thieves, moguls and tech-savvy teens. It's about the best pirate ever sold, the most effective executive in the music business, a ground-breaking technology, and an unlawful website four times the size of the iTunes music store. Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret record of digital music piracy, from the German audio tracks engineers who invented the mp3 to a NEW YORK compact-disc manufacturing facility where factory employee Dell Glover leaked practically 2,000 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 lastly into the darkest recesses of the Internet. Through these interwoven narratives, Witt has written a thrilling audiobook that depicts the moment ever sold when ordinary life became permanently entwined with the earth online - when all of the sudden all the music ever recorded was available for free. Inside the pause-resisting traditions of writers like Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright, Witt's deeply reported first reserve introduces the unforgettable people - inventors, professionals, factory workers, and smugglers - who revolutionized an entire talent and reveals for the first time the secret underworld of press pirates that altered our digital lives. An irresistible, never-before-told tale of greed, cunning, genius, and deceit, How Music Received Free isn't just a tale of the music industry - from the must-listen record of the Internet itself.
