![]() ![]() Morris for a reaction shot, screaming in his corner office. Every time they make an advance, and prick the music industry, there’s a jump to Mr. Glover operate as if they unwittingly have voodoo dolls of this man. Glover replies: “Man, no one ever asked.” Witt asks, “Dell, why haven’t you told anybody any of this before.” Mr. It took the author three years, he says, to gain his trust. Glover, who never graduated from college, is a good movie waiting to happen. (He would later be arrested for his thefts and, after cooperating with the F.B.I., serve three months in prison.) Glover really wanted, the author suggests, was some extra money to put rims on his car. Witt refers to this winsome if somewhat hapless manager, Dell Glover, as “the most fearsome digital pirate of them all.” All Mr. He smuggled most of them out behind an oversized belt buckle before ripping them and putting them online. Witt delivers a tidy primer in the field of psychoacoustics.Įven better, he has found the man - a manager at a CD factory in small-town North Carolina - who over eight years leaked nearly 2,000 albums before their release, including some of the best-known rap albums of all time. He pushes past Napster (Sean Fanning, dorm room, lawsuits) and goes deep on the German audio engineers who, drawing on decades of research into how the ear works, spent years developing the MP3 only to almost see it nearly become the Betamax to another group’s VHS. ![]()
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