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5 David Carr, “Free Music, at Least While It Lasts,”
New York Times
, June 8, 2014.

6 Grant Gross, “Pirate Sites Draw Huge Traffic,”
Computerworld
, January 1, 2013.

7 “NetNames Piracy Analysis: Sizing the Piracy Universe 3,” September 2013.

8 IFPI Digital Music Report, 2011, “Music at the Touch of a Button,” p. 14.

9 OFCOM, online copyright infringement tracker benchmark study, Q3 2012, November 20, 2012.

10 David Goldman, “Music’s Lost Decade: Sales Cut in Half in 2000s,”
CNN Money
, February 3, 2010.

11 Derek Thompson, “Why Would Anybody Ever Buy Another Song?,”
Atlantic
, March 17, 2014.

12 Thair Shaikh, “HMV Closes Historic Oxford Street Store,”
Independent
, January 14, 2014.

13 Dave Lee, “‘Netflix for Piracy’ Popcorn Time Saved by Fans,” BBC News, March 17, 2014.

14 Andrew Stewart, “Number of Frequent Young Moviegoers Plummets in 2013,”
Variety
, March 25, 2014.

15 IFPI Digital Music Report, 2011, p. 5.

16 TERA Consultants, “Building a Digital Economy: The Importance of Saving Jobs in the EU’s Creative Industries,” International Chamber of Commerce/BASCAP, March 2010.

17 “45% Fewer Professional Working Musicians Since 2002,”
Trichordist
, May 21, 2013.

18 For a summary of the corrosive impact of piracy on the creative industries, see my white paper “Profiting from Free: The Scourge of Online Piracy and How Industry Can Help” (ICOMP, October 2013). Some of the research from my white paper has also been deployed in this book.

19 Ananth Baliga, “Pirate Websites Roped in $227 Million in Ad Revenues in 2013,” UPI, February 18, 2014.

20 Duncan Grieve, “Kim Dotcom: ‘I’m Not a Pirate, I’m an Innovator,’”
Guardian
, January 14, 2014.

21 Robert Levine,
Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
(New York: Doubleday, 2011), p. 4.

22 Ibid., p. 13.

23 “Know Your Rights on Social Media—Legal Considerations and More,” American Society of Media Photographers, 2013.

24 “Understanding the Role of Search in Online Piracy,” Millward Brown Digital, September 2013.

25 “comScore Releases March 2014 U.S. Search Engine Rankings,”
comScore.com
, April 15, 2014.

26 “comScore Releases ‘2013 UK Digital Future in Focus Report,’”
comScore.com
, February 14, 2013.

27 Josh Holiday, “Google Pledge to Downgrade Piracy Sites Under Review,”
Guardian
, November 5, 2012.

28 See Glenn Peoples, “RIAA Report Criticizes Google’s Efforts to Limit Infringing Search Results,”
Billboard
, February 21, 2013. Also Glenn Peoples, “Business Matters: MP3 Stores Harder to Find as Google Search Removal Requests Accumulate,”
Billboard
, February 4, 2013.

29 Andrew Albanese, “Artists and Photographers Sue Over Google Book Search,”
Publishers Weekly
, April 7, 2010.

30 Erik Kirschbaum, “Merkel Criticizes Google for Copyright Infringement,” Reuters, October 10, 2009.

31 Stuart Dredge and Dominic Rushe, “YouTube to Block Indie Labels Who Don’t Sign Up to New Music Service,”
Guardian
, June 17, 2014.

32 Leslie Kaufman, “Chasing Their Star, on YouTube,”
New York Times
, February 1, 2014.

33 Jason Calacanis, “I Ain’t Gonna Work on YouTube’s Farm No More,” Launch, June 2, 2013.

34 Carr, “Free Music, at Least While It Lasts.”

35 Michael Wolff, “New Cash, New Questions for Business Insider,”
USA Today
, March 16, 2014.

36 Levine,
Free Ride
, p. 4.

37 Ibid., p. 113.

38 Henry Mance, “Trust-Fund Newspaper? Not Us,”
Financial Times
, March 7, 2014. See also Ravi Somaiya, “
Guardian
to Make Management Changes,”
New York Times
,
March 6, 2014.

39 Lucia Moses, “The
Guardian
’s Robot Newspaper Comes to the U.S.,”
Digiday
, April 13, 2014.

40 Tom Kutsch, “The Blurred Lines of Native Advertising,” Al Jazeera America, March 8, 2014.

41 Alan D. Mutter, “The Newspaper Crisis, by the Numbers,”
Newsosaur.blogspot.com
, July 16, 2014.

42 Monica Anderson, “At Newspapers, Photographers Feel the Brunt of Job Cuts,” Pew Research Center, November 11, 2013.

43 Lawrie Zion, “New Beats: Where Do Redundant Journalists Go?,”
TheConversation.com
, December 1, 2013.

44 Rachel Bartlett, “A Quarter of Spanish Journalists Made Redundant Since the Recession, Suggests Report,”
Journalism.co.uk
, December 15, 2010.

45 Andres Cala, “Spain’s Economic Crisis Has an Unexpected Victim: Journalism,”
Christian Science Monitor
, February 28, 2013.

46 Clay Shirky, “Last Call: The End of the Printed Newspaper,”
Medium.com
, August 21, 2014.

47 Rory Carroll, “Silicon Valley’s Culture of Failure . . . and ‘the Walking Dead’ It Leaves Behind,”
Guardian
, June 28, 2014.

48 Alyson Shontell, “$4 Billion Is the New $1 Billion in Startups,”
Business Insider
, November 13, 2013.

49 Joshua Brustein, “Spotify Hits 10 Million Paid Users. Now Can It Make Money?,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, May 21, 2014.

50 David Byrne, “The Internet Will Suck All Creative Content Out of the World,”
Guardian
, October 11, 2013.

51 Charles Arthur, “Thom Yorke Blasts Spotify on Twitter as He Pulls His Music,”
Guardian
, July 15, 2013.

52 Paul Resnikoff, “16 Artists That Are Now Speaking Out Against Streaming,”
Digital Music News
, February 2, 2013.

53 Ellen Shipley, “My Song Was Played 3.1 Million Times on Pandora. My Check Was $39,”
Digital Music News
, July 29, 2013.

54 David Carr, “A New Model for Music: Big Bands, Big Brands,”
New York Times,
March 16, 2014.

55 Ibid.

56 Ibid.

57 TERA Consultants, “Building a Digital Economy: The Importance of Saving Jobs in the EU’s Creative Industries.”

Chapter Six

1 European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, “Intellectual Property Rights Intensive Industries: Contribution to Economic Performance and Employment in the European Union,” September 2013, p. 6.

2 Motion Picture Association of America, “2011 Economic Contribution of the Motion Picture and Television Industry to the United States.”

3 Michael Cass, “Commerce Secretary Gives Music Row Some Good News,”
Tennessean
, August 7, 2013.

4 Keen,
The Cult of the Amateur
, p. 113.

5 Packer, “Celebrating Inequality.”

6 Heather Havrilesky, “794 Ways in Which Buzzfeed Reminds Us of Impending Death,”
New York Times,
July 3, 2014.

7 Anita Elberse,
Blockbusters: Hit-Making, Risk-Taking and the Big Business of Entertainment
(New York: Henry Holt, 2013), p. 11.

8 Robert H. Frank, “Winners Take All, but Can’t We Still Dream?,”
New York Times
, February 22, 2014.

9 Elberse,
Blockbusters
, p. 160.

10 “The Death of the Long Tail,” MusicIndustryBlog, March 4, 2014.

11 Helienne Lindvall, “The 1 Percent: Income Inequality Has Never Been Worse Among Touring Musicians,”
Guardian
, July 5, 2013.

12 John Gapper, “The Superstar Still Reigns Supreme over Publishing,”
Financial Times,
July 17, 2013.

13 Alison Flood, “Most Writers Earn Less Than £600 a Year, Survey Reveals,”
Guardian
, January 17, 2014.

14 Colin Robinson, “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Reader,”
New York Times
, January 4, 2014.

15 Amanda Ripley,
The Smartest Kids in the World
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013), pp. 169–70.

16 Tamar Lewin, “Professors at San Jose State Criticize Online Courses,”
New York Times
, May 2, 2013.

17 Ki Mae Heussner, “‘Star’ Coursera Prof Stops Teaching Online Course in Objection to MOOCs,” GigaOm, September 3, 2013.

18 William Deresiewicz,
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), p. 186.

19 Jessica McKenzie, “More Evidence That MOOCs Are Not Great Equalizers,”
Techpresident.com
, March 17, 2014.

20 Emily Bell,
“Journalists Are on the Move in America—and Creating a New Vitality,”
Guardian
, November 17, 2013.

21 Riva Gold, “Newsroom Diversity: A Casualty of Journalism’s Financial Crisis,”
Atlantic
, July 2013.

22 Emily Bell, “Journalism Startups Aren’t a Revolution if They’re Filled with All These White Men,”
Guardian,
March 12, 2014.

23 Suzanne Moore, “In the Digital Economy, We’ll Soon All Be Working for Free—and I Refuse,”
Guardian
, June 5, 2013.

24 Tim Kreider, “Slaves of the Internet, Unite!,”
New York Times,
October 26, 2013.

25 Alina Simone, “The End of Quiet Music,”
New York Times,
September 25, 2013.