@article{732428,
      author = {Witt, Stephen,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/732428},
      title = {How music got free : the end of an industry, the turn of  the century, and the Patient Zero of piracy /},
      abstract = {A story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring  visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers.  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. Through these interwoven  narratives, Witt has written a book that depicts the moment  in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with  the world online -- when, suddenly, all the music ever  recorded was available for free. Witt introduces the  unforgettable characters -- inventors, executives, factory  workers, and smugglers -- who revolutionized an entire  artform, and reveals for the first time the secret  underworld of media pirates that transformed our digital  lives.},
      recid = {732428},
      pages = {296 pages ;},
}