By July 1989, they’d [The Moving Picture Coding Experts Group] come up with “MPEG-1 Audio and Video,” which was in use by 1992. Soon after this, a hacker called “SoloH” swiped the codec off an unprotected server, extracted the layer devoted to audio encoding, and shipped it around the globe.
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“…the past 10 years could become the first decade of pop music to be remembered by history for its musical technology rather than the actual music itself.”
Nice.