Meet Dell Glover the accidental pirate Meet Kali the mastermind And meet Karlheinz the man who made it all possible How Music Got Free is a blistering story of obsession, music and obscene money. A story of visionaries, criminals and tycoons. It s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful exec in the music business, and an illegal website six times the size of i Tunes.It begins with a small-time thief at a CD-pressing plant, and a groundbreaking invention on the other side of the globe. Then pans from the multi-million-dollar deals of the music industry to the darkest corners of the web; from German audio laboratories to a tiny Polynesian radio station.This is also the story of the music industry the rise of rap, the death of the album, and how much can rest on the flip of a coin. How the fate of artists like Kanye West, Jay-Z and 50 Cent were being controlled by a guy no one had ever heard of. How suddenly all the tracks ever recorded could be accessed by anyone, for free. And the industry imploded.
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