Review by monkieseemonkiedo - How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt

5.0

This is a fascinating and engaging book about the invention of the .mp3, the recent history of the music industry and its reaction to piracy, and the pirates themselves. Witt does an amazing job making the stories personal, focusing on a generation of men who got rich off of music in some way, and how they fared as the industry changed.