A review by hayify
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

An exhaustive investigation of the development of music piracy around the turn of the century. The protagonists: the inventor of the MP3, the biggest record label boss and the employee of a CD pressing plant who leaked thousands of albums by the biggest stars prematurely. Non-fiction, but reads like a detective full of cliffhangers. Highly recommended for anyone who ever had an iPod with gigabytes of ‘found’ music.