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Free ride : how digital parasites are destroying the culture business, and how the culture business can fight back

A report on how the Internet is significantly compromising the newspaper, music, and film industries offers advice to media industry insiders on how to use innovative solutions to reclaim profits
Print Book, English, ©2011
Doubleday, New York, ©2011
x, 307 pages ; 25 cm
9780385533768, 0385533764
635461126
Introduction: The online free-for-all
How Congress created YouTube
and media's big problem
Facing the music : how the Internet devastated the music business
Geeks bearing gifts : Google's war on copyright
The siren song of "free" : why newspapers struggled online
The revolution may not be televised : how the Internet could kill Mad Men
Books or Kindle-ing? : How technology could turn the page on publishing
Moving pictures : can Hollywood conquer the cloud?
Disquiet on the European front : why France favors art over the Internet
Blanket protection : turning copyright into copyrisk
The future of the future : commerce or chaos?