Stephen Witt’s ‘How Music Got Free’

There’s really no American who hasn’t felt the effects of digital technology. The last generation has transformed media, and the law has been – and still is – racing to catch up.

What, however, do we remember accurately even of changes that have swept all around us?

Above, I’ve embedded a Reason.tv interview with Stephen Witt, author of How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy.

His book is a recounting of a tale we may know only in part, and only imperfectly.

The interview is well worth watching, and Witt’s book well worth reading.