
Going for a song: the hidden history of music piracy
From the late 90s, illegal filesharing gradually brought the music industry to its knees. Exclusive extracts from Stephen Witt’s book pinpoint how music ‘got free’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/07/stephen-witt-how-music-got-free-music-piracy-filesharing#:~:text=You%20could%20learn%20all%20this%20on%20Oink%2C%20which%20acted%20almost%20as%20a%20museum%20exhibit%20of%20Drake's%20critical%20afterlife%2C%20charting%20the%20repeated%20attempts%20to%20cash%20in%20on%20his%20growing%20critical%20and%20commercial%20stature.%20