Joe Mock: "So thru rock and roll diligence I am assembling a decent collection for a CD. I’m not done yet because KLOS is playing more highlights tonight and I need a clean recording of the Who’s set." Its all on the right bittorrent sites – every artist, their entireset.  Dont know how they got […]

It’s kind of like the war in Iraq.  With every victory the content companies proclaim, the more their position no longer comports with reality, the more it appears they’re out of touch, lying or just plain devious. Make no mistake.  That victory in the Supreme Court on Monday was hollow.  Although we’ve got Larry Lessig […]

Yeah, THIS is intriguing.  Let me get my copy protected song for 99 cents from some peon in New Jersey or Wyoming rather than instantly downloading a pristine version from the iTunes Music Store. It’s the PRICE stupid.  It’s not the DELIVERY system!  I mean I’ll get it FASTER from the iTunes Music Store but […]

Conventional wisdom is the content companies won, P2P lost.  The Grokster decision was heralded as a great day in the fight against file-trading and the establishment of legitimate online services. The only problem is this is not what Justice Souter’s opinion said. Justice Souter questioned whether file-trading was even hurting the labels.  He restated the […]