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FT Swamp Notes
What we think about when we think about 2023 Premium content
...I am such a science geek, particularly any kind of sci-fi physics stuff (watched Interstellar like, 10 times), and so I really enjoyed this piece in the New Yorker by Stephen Witt....
January 9, 2023
FT AlphavilleMusic
The MP3 and the T-Rex: Part 1
...(As an aside, Glover’s and Brandenburg’s stories are chronicled by Stephen Witt in How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?...
November 3, 2020
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Crossword
Crossword and Polymath competitions suspended
...: Bill Stewart, Leicester; Gareth Christopher, Switzerland; Duncan Mackenzie, Norfolk Polymath 1,017: Antony McCammon, Switzerland Crossword 16,135: Neil McIndoe, London; Julian Cooke, London; Ashley Witts...
June 5, 2020
Stephen Witt
Why does Apple have to spoil everything?
The US group’s music streaming service has taken aim at Spotify and is gaining fast
July 14, 2018
Letter
Franco-German proposals would undermine competitive markets in the EU
...Kar Linklaters LLP, London Jonas Koponen Linklaters LLP, Brussels Francesco Rosati RBB Economics, Brussels Cristoforo Osti Chiomenti Studio Legale, Rome Christian Wik Roschier, Helsinki Anne Witt...
April 29, 2019
FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
High resolution music is a solution looking for a problem
...(For those who are interested, Alphaville recommends Stephen Witt’s excellent How Music Got Free on the birth, and Rabelesian aftermath, of the lowly file format.)...
May 13, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Due Diligence
China’s accidental ‘bad banks’ Premium content
...The UK’s Compass Group has hired Kingfisher’s Karen Witts as its chief financial officer. She will succeed Johnny Thomson....
October 12, 2018
FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
Is a change goin' to come?
...And as Stephen Witt chronicled in his book on the mp3 “ How Music Got Free”, it normally involves a rather messy mix of both....
July 31, 2018
Stephen Witt
Netflix has nothing to fear from Disney’s Magic Kingdom
The history of TV is not one of quality — the bottom-feeder niche is lucrative
August 14, 2017
Stephen Witt
Big Data will determine pop radio playlists
In an age of analytics, the head of BBC Radio 1 wants to remain a tastemaker, writes Stephen Witt
April 11, 2016
Life & Arts
Is drone racing the sport of the future?
...Stephen Witt is author of ‘How Music Got Free’, which was shortlisted in the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015 Photographs: Kenneth O’Halloran; Michael Brian; Bloomberg...
April 1, 2016
Digital Media
Digital natives still yearn for an analogue life
Vinyl record sales increased by more than 50 per cent last year, writes Stephen Witt
February 28, 2016
Life & Arts
Bodley Head / FT Essay Prize 2015: The riot that made me write
...‘How Music Got Free’ by Stephen Witt has been shortlisted for this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Illustration by Toby Whitebread How to enter the 2015 Bodley Head/...
October 2, 2015
OpeningsLife & Arts
Openings: What’s the point of learning an instrument?
The instruction chain School of Rock has more than 100 locations even as the genre itself dwindles in popularity
December 4, 2015
Letter
When Bowie died only vinyl would do
...Sir, I very much enjoyed Stephen Witt’s poignant article on vinyl (“Digital natives still yearn for an analogue life”, February 29)....
March 6, 2016
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Letter
Playing is a challenge, progress a delight
...Sir, Stephen Witt asks: what is the point of learning a musical instrument? (Openings, Life & Arts, December 5.) I have been learning the piano since I was six and still have lessons....
December 11, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Best books of 2015: Business
...How Music Got Free, by Stephen Witt, Bodley Head, RRP£20/Viking, RRP$27.95 By concentrating on a few significant characters — from Doug Morris, the tycoon at the top of the recorded music tree, to the highly...
November 27, 2015
Life & Arts
Who will win the streaming wars?
...Stephen Witt is the author of ‘How Music Got Free’, published by Bodley Head on June 18 Photographs: Charlie Bibby; New York Times/Eyevine This article has been updated since publication to amend the date...
June 12, 2015
Book awards
Robots capture 2015 business book award
...Witt’s history of the way piracy and peer-to-peer sharing have disrupted the recorded music industry; Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new book Unfinished Business, about the challenge of achieving gender balance...
November 18, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
, by Stephen Witt
...In How Music Got Free, Stephen Witt explores what went wrong....
June 5, 2015
Book awards
Tech titles dominate shortlist for FT business book of the year
...Witt’s history of the way piracy and peer-to-peer sharing have disrupted the recorded music industry....
September 22, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Summer reading: Business books
..., by Stephen Witt, Bodley Head, RRP£20/Viking, RRP$27.95 Apple’s entry into the subscription music-streaming market is proof that the music industry survived — just — but Witt tells the exciting story of...
June 26, 2015
Book awards
Books: What the rise of the machines means for our working lives
...Offered a seventh or eighth slot, I would also have mentioned How Music Got Free , Stephen Witt’s page-turner about how piracy nearly destroyed the established music industry....
January 24, 2016
FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
A bleaker view of our automated future comes to the fore
...Witt’s history of the way piracy and peer-to-peer sharing have disrupted the recorded music industry....
November 18, 2015
FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Business Book Award longlist: must-read titles of 2015
...But this year’s tech contenders also include: How Music Got Free, Stephen Witt’s story of how online piracy nearly brought down the recording industry; Losing the Signal, by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff...
August 12, 2015

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