‘Downloaded’: Alex Winter on Napster’s legacy and a future with Spotify
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Most of you probably know Alex Winter the actor. Winter has become a recognizable face for anyone who grew up in the eighties, from The Lost Boys to Bill and Ted. He also spent decades directing for TV, film, and a handful of music videos (including Ice Cube and Spike Lee). Winter’s latest project is Downloaded, a documentary chronicling Napster’s rise and the people who created and were most affected by it.
“It was a massive piece of evolution that occurred in our culture — that was going to occur, that did occur,” he said, “and we have to live with it… we have to work with it.”
T.C. Sottek sat down with Winter to talk about how the project came about and also share some thoughts on how the music industry is adapting to newer models like Spotify.
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Dude, this is tubular! 😀
He was in The Lost Boys!
Alex Winter’s view on Napster is interesting and pretty unique. I definitely want to check out this documentary.
I watched that documentary. Well worth a watch very well done.
Nice interview, some very interesting stuff.
Great interview.
I’m so glad to see him again! I’m definitely going to hunt down his work and hope this documentary rolls into the public eye.
We had Napster in computer lab at school lol.
Yeah Napster was on the computers back in highschool
Great interview. Also: please give not only your interview guests the high quality microphones (which are outstanding for portable devices). Your journalists need high quality mics, too, or you’ll have a crazy volume and noise difference like you got in this video when the journalist is speaking.
Bill is still EXCELLENT 🙂 Alex Winters brings out very key points, and I think it would make a very interesting documentary or even a movie narrative. KUDOS
Download is getting downloaded 🙂
Once again the verge give us a top-notch interview , I would like you to interview steve ballmer , that’s would be super epic ..
T.C. Sottek looks like Mr Jekyll… 😛
Can I buy Download on DVD?