How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

No person alive, not even Shawn Fanning, had benefited more than Brandenburg from Napster’s success. Only by a global, collectivized betrayal of the rights of copyright holders could he make the money that he did

Tucker purchased twenty shares of Time Warner stock, then showed up at the company’s shareholder meeting, and, in an excruciatingly uncomfortable moment, requested that the executives there read the most explicit lyrics from Death Row releases aloud to their shareholders. (They declined.) After Tucker’s performance, Henry Luce III, the heir to the Ti