A feel good circle jerk promulgated by those out of touch with economic realities. And tech ones too. Remember when Congress held hearings over Napster? What killed illegal P2P was technological solutions, i.e. Spotify, with its free tier. Want to kill ticket scalping? Charge what the tickets are worth or tie them to the buyer, […]

The job of an artist is to speak truth to power. Where have all the artists gone? They’re hiding. Afraid of losing their living, just like the rest of America, especially those who voted for Trump. America is a nation of ideas. A country where everybody is created equal, where everybody gets a fair chance, […]

We go where our friends are. Spotify pushed the envelope, created the new paradigm, Apple broadcast that streaming music was safe and everybody else… Can forget about it. You’d think the press would say no-go. Say something critical about Pandora. But reporters’ powers of analysis are nonexistent, they just repeat the press release. And even […]

I don’t like it when people I know die. I was just sitting in my car, checking my email to see who abused me. That’s the nature of life, being misunderstood. We yearn to be known, and the end result is we’re not, we pass from this life, vanish into thin air, but our presence, […]