- Downloading of data, Corrupt practices, MP3 (Audio coding standard), Sound recording industry
This book is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It's about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store.
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Earnest, grave, epic and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Witt
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Contra, Bodley Head, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847923363
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