The Man Who Broke the Music Business
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The Man Who Broke the Music Business
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How an employee at a CD-manufacturing plant became the Patient Zero of Internet piracy.

Dell Glover manufactured CDs for a living, but he began to wonder: if the MP3 was just as good, why bother with the CD?

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Wasn’t expecting such a long read. Definitely interesting!

@nivenkos@lemmy.world
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Read How Music Got Free - it’s a book based about these same events.

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