Mauro and I met in 1983, when he was an architectural models maker and worked at his own advertising agency. Two years later, we were living and working together, and since that moment, we have shared our lives together and have two children: Demetrio and Olimpia. We are so very different in our styles and characters that our relationship requires a continuous discussion in order to come to an agreement for everything.
With a smile on his face, author Stephen Witt told me that before publishing his first book, "There was no mention anywhere that the only reason the MP3 succeeded as a technology was because of the greatest wave of copyright infringement and piracy that the world had ever seen." MP3s are as ubiquitous as music itself, but have we ever really asked ourselves how this new technology came to be so universal, or who exactly was responsible for its pandemic spread, which crippled the music industry at large?