Just because someone yells, that doesn’t mean you should listen. Netflix gained 610,000 subscribers in the U.S. last quarter. The company is just shy of its all time high, it’s now got 24.4 million subscribers, it had 24.59 million at its peak. In other words, the only thing Reed Hastings did wrong was react to […]

There’s a belief that if we just quashed piracy, eliminated all free access to music, coffers would fill once again, musicians would be rich and we’d enter a new golden age. But that’s hogwash. 1. Music competes. With not only video games and movies and TV, but the Net and everything on it. People have […]

Are you best off: 1. Getting 3 minutes on CNN. 2. Getting published in the Sunday Opinion section of the "New York Times" and having your column reach #6 on the most emailed list. 3. Having "a guest post you wrote, published on the blog of one lone dude in SF obsessed with fat loss, […]

Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea "Just consume, don’t produce, don’t share." The content industries don’t want a distinction between what’s legal and illegal, that bit them in the ass already, with the Home Recording Act of 1992, wherein it was declared legal to make your own mixtapes, even share them. That horrified […]