"How Music Became Free" is an exciting story in which obsession, greed, music, crime and money are intertwined. This story is told through visionaries and criminals, tycoons and teenagers creating a new digital reality. This is a story about the greatest pirate in history, the most influential leader in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal site that was larger than i.. Tunes Music Store four times. Journalist Steven Witt tracks the secret history of digital music piracy since the invention by German audio engineers of the mp3 format, leads the reader through a factory in North Carolina, where CDs were printed and from which one of the employees leaked approximately 2,000 albums over a decade to the high-rises in Manhattan , Where the music business was ruled by the powerful Doug Morris , monopolized the world market of rap music , and from there into the depths of the Internet - darknet.