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Great read for any music enthusiast who lived through the digitization and pirating of music pre and post the short lived Napster (the AOL of downloading). From compression of CD to MP3 that was like landing on the moon, a reduction of a 12 to 1 ratio, to the pirates who were not in for the money but the notoriety of releasing CD's on the internet before it was in the stores and the fact that billions of downloads can be traced to a dude called 'Glover' I found this book fascinating. Author does a great job threading multiple story lines around a common narrative which I found very compelling. And you know what broke the back of the music industry - portable MP3 players i.e. Ipod. Before that happened CD's were still selling well as a PC was not quite portable.