![]() I became obsessed, and as I researched more, I began to find the most wonderful things. There had been heavy coverage of the mp3 phenomenon, of course, and of Apple and Napster and the Pirate Bay, but there had been little talk of the inventors, and almost none at all of those who actually pirated the files. Book Excerpt: 'How Music Got Free'Īs I was browsing through my enormous list of albums one day a few years ago, a fundamental question struck me: where had all this music come from, anyway? I didn’t know the answer, and as I researched it, I realized that no one else did either. Witt discusses the rise of the MP3 and the fall of the CD with Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson. He also tells the story of a record industry executive who, like many in the industry, got caught flat-footed by the onslaught of digital piracy that followed the development and and dispersal of MP3 technology. Witt profiles the German audio engineers who came up with the MP3 technology and a worker in a CD plant who leaked almost two thousand albums. ![]() How did music go from being something you got on CD to something you got online? That's what Stephen Witt chronicles in his new book " How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, The Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Privacy." ![]() Stephen Witt is author of "How Music Got Free." (Photo on right by Chad Griffith) This article is more than 7 years old. ![]()
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