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

That's not at all what he said, he says it's more convenient. His book is a fairly good, and well researched, history of digital music.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez
  
• About the mp3 scene: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Music-Got-Free-Industry/dp/0525426612
  
• BBS Documentary (where the scene originated from before moving to FTP) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary

I highly recommend "How Music Got Free" by Stephen Witt. It explains the switch from recorded to streaming media via piracy from the perspective of someone who grew up on mp3s.

If you were ever part of the early mp3 scene, this is a great read: https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Got-Free-Industry/dp/0525426612/

Not really, I recommend this book and documentary though

http://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Got-Free-Industry/dp/0525426612

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business

https://www.vice.com/read/the-man-who-found-the-man-who-broke-the-music-industry-111

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary

Also --> https://opentrackers.org/links/warez-scene/#scenerelated

https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Got-Free-Industry/dp/0525426612