1. Nobody thinks it’s copyright infringement to sync music with video. Snowbird is cutting a tunnel from the Peruvian side to Mineral Basin.  In 2006, one expects documentation of ski resort expansion projects on the net.  But in the YouTube era, we even get VIDEO!  Of a steam shovel digging to the strains of BREAK […]

1. Justin Timberlake "Future Sex/Love Sounds" Sales this week: 684,461Debut If this is the future of sex, Woody Allen was right, the orgasmatron is coming! Funny thing about today’s landscape…  If you don’t like something, you can ignore it.  It’s not like the sixties, we don’t live in one big homogenous society.  Justin Timberlake might […]

BLACK EYED PEAS Friday 8/25: Black Eyed Peas/Pussycat DollsNikon At Jones Beach Theatre-Wantagh, NYGross: $358,551Tickets sold: 7,051Capacity: 13,855Percentage sold: 50.9%Ticket Prices: $59.50/$29.50 Sunday 8/27: Black Eyed Peas/Danity KaneNew York State Fair-Syracuse, NYGross: $212,491Tickets sold: 5,985Capacity: 16,400Percentage sold: 36.5%Ticket Prices: $52.00/$47.00 Tuesday 8/29: Black Eyed Peas/Pussycat DollsPNC Bank Arts Center-Holmdel, NJGross: $278,009Tickets sold: 8,557Capacity: 16,417Percentage sold: […]

The paradigm here isn’t MTV, but Napster. MTV wasn’t pirating the labels’ wares, building a business without compensation.  Hell, at first the labels were eager to give MTV videos.  Only after record companies experienced the juggernaut did they demand payment, and they ultimately received it, albeit minimally.  By then they’d lost their leverage, not that […]