Janko Röttgers

Janko Röttgers (* 1976 ) is a German journalist and author . He lives and works in San Francisco .

In the 2000s he published on the topics of network culture , network politics and music on the Internet , among others in c't , de: Bug , Frankfurter Rundschau , Friday , heise online , Telepolis , netzwelt.de and in Tonspion . At that time he was living in Los Angeles.

His book "Mix, Burn & RIP", published in 2003, attracted particular attention, in which he prophesied the end of the music industry and its classic distribution channels. Röttgers predicted that content such as music would increasingly be consumed in digital form over the Internet (for example in legal download stores such as iTunes or Beatport , but also via file sharing ) in the following years .

After working as a correspondent for German-language media, he joined the US technology blog Gigaom. From 2015 to 2019, he wrote for Variety magazine on technology topics from San Francisco. At the end of 2019 he switched to the newly founded publication Protocol .

Publications

Mix, Burn & RIP - The End of the Music Industry , 2003, ISBN 3936931089 . Download as PDF on the book homepage (archived version at the Internet Archive )
Netzpiraten - The culture of electronic crime (Ed., Together with Armin Medosch ), 2001, ISBN 3882291885 .
Netbeats - Music on the Internet , 2000, ISBN 3827258219 .

Web links

Janko Roettgers on Twitter
Lowpass.cc - website of Janko Röttgers (last updated in 2009)
Mix, Burn & RIP - Weblog by Janko Röttgers (2003–2008, archived version at the Internet Archive )
Moritz Sauer: Janko Röttgers: The end of the music industry or a new beginning? (Book review and interview, phlow.net, September 26, 2003; archived version at the Internet Archive)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Janko Röttgers: Mix, Burn & RIP - The end of the music industry. The author. In: mixburnrip.de. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Janko Roettgers: Janko Roettgers. In: Variety. Retrieved February 1, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Janko Roettgers: Some personal news: Next Friday 12/20 will be my last day at Variety. I'm incredibly grateful to the entire Variety family, which allowed me to work on some really fun stories over the past 4.5 years. In: @ jank0 on Twitter. December 11, 2019, accessed February 1, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Röttgers, Janko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roettgers, Janko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH	1976

[:0-1] Janko Röttgers: Mix, Burn & RIP - The end of the music industry. The author. In: mixburnrip.de. Accessed February 1, 2020 .

[:1-2] Janko Roettgers: Janko Roettgers. In: Variety. Retrieved February 1, 2020 .

[:2-3] Janko Roettgers: Some personal news: Next Friday 12/20 will be my last day at Variety. I'm incredibly grateful to the entire Variety family, which allowed me to work on some really fun stories over the past 4.5 years. In: @ jank0 on Twitter. December 11, 2019, accessed February 1, 2020 .