My conversation with critically-acclaimed author and journalist Stephen Witt, whose book "How Music Got Free" is a brilliant narrative history of music piracy and a true story about the scientists, smugglers, and corporate suits that you never imagined were behind the scenes changing the industry as we know it.

We discussed the three most important figures who altered music forever; Karlheinz Brandenburg (altruistic scientist), Dell Glover (anarchic smuggler), and Doug Morris (greedy capitalist), what inspired Stephen to devote his life to researching and writing about the truth behind mainstream perceptions of security and privacy, his impressions of Tower Records and the end of old school retailing, why his lack of sentimentality for album nostalgia and classic rock bands shouldn't be mistaken for as weakness, the insidious nature of Apple and Google when it comes to meta-data collection and how it's influencing a new generation of music lovers, and his candid thoughts on the human condition when it comes to new ideas constructed on the backs of failing industries.

Be sure to follow Stephen (@stephenwitt) on social media and visit his website (stephenwittbooks.com) to order your copy of "How Music Got Free: The end of an industry, the turn of the century, and the patient zero of piracy" available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Powell's, Indiebound, and iBooks.