Piracy only hurts big corporations, so who cares? That’s how the saying goes, but then I don’t understand why so many corporation-hating “file sharers” insist upon giving Google free money, especially when Google is bigger than all the major Hollywood studios combined. The report conducted by Milward Brown Digital contains this observation in its executive summary: 58% of queries that ...
Since the days of Napster, the technosenti have been insisting that the entertainment industry simply needs to stop complaining about copyright theft and innovate. Setting aside the fact that exploitation is not a form of innovation, I like to remind people that with regard to filmed entertainment, the technology for reliable, high-quality streaming is about five years old, which may ...
As we approach the dog days of summer, the blogosphere is heating up on matters pertaining to music and the stream in which it now swims. Practically on the heels of Pink Floyd’s public warning to artists against falling for Pandora’s recent attempts to lower licensing fees, Thom Yorke of bands Radiohead and Atoms for Peace pulled his music from ...
On July 4th, I announced that I’m rebooting a project that began as a short film in the summer of 2011. goneElvis is a portrait depicting a day in the life of a female veteran of the Iraq War who is homeless and suffers from PTSD. As stated in the new post on the film’s website, there are things I ...
Once again, Pandora internet radio is attempting to use an act of Congress to lower the royalties it pays artists, and once again, musicians are speaking out against both the tactics and the two-faced approach being taken by CEO Tim Westergren to pay lip service to his respect for artists while sticking his already well-greased palm into their back pockets. ...
