Free ride
Subtitle: how digital parasites are destroying the culture business, and how the culture business can fight back
By: Robert Levine
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780385533768
Subjects: Digital media; Cultural industries; Mass media; Internet; Technological innovations; Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How Congress created YouTube - and media's big problem; title: Facing the music: how the Internet devastated the music business; title: Geeks bearing gifts: Google's war on copyright; title: The siren song of "free": why newspapers struggled online; title: The revolution may not be televised: how the Internet could kill cable; title: Books or Kindle-ing? How technology could turn the page on publishing; title: Moving pictures: can Hollywood conquer the cloud?; title: Disquiet on the European front: technology and the French exception; title: Blanket protection: can Europe create a culture buffet?; title: The future of the future: commerce or chaos?