306 pages
English language
Published Aug. 1, 2016
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Journalist Stephen Witt traces the 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.
Subjects
- Downloading of data
- Corrupt practices
- MP3 (Audio coding standard)
- Sound recording industry
- Music and the Internet
- Music trade
- Sound recordings
- Pirated editions
- Economic aspects
- History