How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
Stephen Witt
"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."--
Award History
0 wins · 3 total
| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestMajor | 2015 | Finalist | Secondary source |
| FT Business Book of the YearMajor | 2015 | Shortlist | Secondary source |
| J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize | 2016 | Finalist | Secondary source |
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01 Central figures
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- Dell Glover60%
- Doug Morris62%
02 Central places
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- North Carolina55%
- midtown Manhattan60%
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04 Reading orientation
35 / 100 academicSerious trade
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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.