"The same point is at the heart of Freeloading, which--like the TMT piece--provides the backstory that Ruen himself was an unapologetic music pirate until he began working at a Brooklyn cafe, saw that some of the indie-rock musicians who came in--members of the Hold Steady, Yeasayer, Vampire Weekend, musicians he considered 'success stories'--were virtually broke due to, he believed, digital piracy killing album sales ('Even I had an apartment as nice or nicer than those of some of these "rock stars,"' Ruen writes), understood that at some point the lack of financial support could compel many of them to stop pursuing a career in music, and had the epiphany that 'behind free content's superficial illusion of more lies a long-term reality of less. Sooner or later, it is something we all have to pay for.'"
Michael Alan Goldberg at The Village Voice talks with Chris Ruen about Ruen's book Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Hunger for Free Content Starves Creativity.
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