Robert Levine is the deputy editorial director of Billboard, as well as the author of “Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business and how the Culture Business Can Fight Back,” which was published in 2011 by Doubleday. He has also been a features editor at “Wired” and “New York” and written about business and culture for “Rolling Stone,” “Vanity Fair,” “Businessweek,” “The New York Times,” and “Die Zeit.”